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Most of the 45 students who were in the building when the fire broke out were evacuated safely by Cambridge firemen...
...firemen contained the fire on the nineteenth floor of the 24-story building...
Busting Budgets. The unions have won spectacular wage gains in recent years. Among the higher top-base annual salaries, which are reached after varying years of service and without promotion: $18,000 for firemen and policemen in Chicago, $16,681 for teachers in Detroit with only a bachelor's degree, and $15,731 for sanitation men in New York. Naturally, people who earn promotions get more than that. Unions have also won pensions that range from generous to excessive and threaten to bust many a budget in the future. In New York, for example, sanitation men hired since...
...Patrolmen's Benevolent Association accepted the layoffs, though with bitterness and threats of work slowdowns. Firemen called in sick in record numbers. The sanitation workers, with the token protest but implicit approval of their union leadership, illegally left their jobs, promising to turn New York into "Stink City" and shouting from picket lines, "Wait 'til the rats come...
...effect allowed them to buy their jobs back. All of the laid-off sanitation men were reinstated, at least for the time being. In return, the sanitation union advanced $1.6 million to the city to pay their salaries until state money became available. The plan infuriated many policemen and firemen, even though 44% of the dismissed cops and 35% of the laid-off firemen were rehired. At the same time, 18 of the firehouses that had been closed were reopened. The city offered to take back more policemen and firemen if their unions could come up with escrow funds...