Word: labor
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...private sector. Differences undeniably exist, and many of them describe the problem that is generating strikes. Governments are monopolies that do not operate in response to the profit motive and that, unlike private industry, cannot go out of business. Raising commodity prices to meet the rising costs of labor is certainly easier than raising taxes. In private industry, management and its power are readily identifiable. But this is more complicated in representative government, where both power and management develop from the citizen but are distributed down a lengthy chain of delegated command. All too often, public unions argue their case...
...Labor Mediator Theodore Kheel proposes enjoining only those strikes that affect public health and safety; others, he feels, can be managed within the strategies of arbitration. Michigan State University Economist Jack Stieber would group government employees into three categories, only the first of which-possibly limited to policemen and firemen-would not be allowed to strike. Strikes instigated in less essential services would be tacitly tolerated, at least until their cumulative effect went beyond inconvenience...
Compulsory arbitration is now being suggested in some quarters as a last-ditch solution. Both management and labor are generally against it in the private sector, on the grounds that it undermines the collective-bargaining process. For the public sector, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has suggested what he calls "voluntary arbitration"-the intercession of an informed and mutually acceptable third party to engineer a settlement. One difficulty here is the genuine doubt that representative government, which receives its mandate from the public, can legally bind itself to an outside judgment...
...University of Wisconsin's Nathan Feinsinger, who serves as a special labor consultant to Governor Warren P. Knowles, has proposed the principle of "voluntaryism," a term he borrowed from George Taylor. "In my judgment," says Feinsinger, "a voluntary agreement not to strike is much more apt to work than a system of fines or imprisonment. This is because a no-strike agreement is the product of negotiations and not imposed from above." Feinsinger would introduce what he calls a "neutral," appointed by both sides, who would audit negotiations as a detached and dispassionate observer, making nonbinding recommendations on request...
...merge it with the Nation, for which he will write a column. Health and financial problems caused him to give up the Charlotte, N.C., tabloid; in the last six years he has lost $65,000. "A man can open a Cadillac franchise for less money than newsprint and printing-labor cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side are like stories about the moon." Nor does he feel that wit is the useful weapon it once was. "The fight...