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...increase in the city's private sector. For four days and almost as many nights, the negotiations rum bled on, punctuated by occasional outbursts that could be heard through the closed hotel room doors. "For Christ's sake!" ... "F___ that!" ... "I'm fed up with Gotbaum!" ... "If you think there's garbage in the streets now!" ... "No! I want to negotiate!" Finally, the door opened and out filed the combatants looking no grimmer than usual. "That's normal collective bargaining," remarked a labor consultant with a smile...
...idea behind the agreement came from Victor Gotbaum, 53, chairman of the union negotiators and local chief of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest of the city unions (110,000 members). The complexities of the compromise were characteristic of Gotbaum, who knows not only the familiar cries of public rhetoric but also the intricacies of private bargaining. Born in Brooklyn, where his father ran a printing plant, he holds a master's degree in international labor relations from Columbia University and has worked for the Government teaching collective bargaining procedures to union leaders...
Last week, Beame tried to get more work out of 100,000 city office and hospital workers by ending the tradition of shortening summer workdays by an hour. Outraged, Victor Gotbaum, the local AFSCME leader, said that he would seek to have the mayor's edict overturned through arbitration...
...York sometimes seems to be run not so much by its elected officials as by the heads of its powerful civil service unions - men like Albert Shanker of the teachers union, Ken McFeeley of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and Victor Gotbaum of the municipal employees union. Over the years, those organizations have wrenched some extraordinary settlements from the city. A garbage collector's base pay after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever...
That struck a tender nerve in Lindsay's tense New York. Evoking the specter of the "biggest, sloppiest, meanest strike in the city's history," Victor Gotbaum, executive director of Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called out some 7,300 workers in an effort to persuade the legislature to change its mind. More than 600 Teamsters joined the walkout...