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...called the Star's "hardball" bargaining tactics. The Star responded with an editorial that thanked its rival for the kind words and observed wryly that the Post had not exactly played "beanbag" with its own unions. After pressmen struck the Post in 1975, the paper replaced them with nonunion workers who are still there, more than three years later...
Complicating the Administration's problems are two other factors. One is that, in the words of Audrey Freedman, senior research associate of the nonprofit Conference Board, "the coming year opens a three-year bargaining cycle dominated by fear-on the part of all employees, union and nonunion alike-that inflation will overwhelm wage increases." Thus union members think that they ought to get the biggest raises possible to protect themselves against an inexorable rise in prices. The Administration has sought to counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages...
...projects to pay workers at the "prevailing" local wage. But, in administering the act, Labor Department officials often seek guidance only from local union chiefs, who quote the highest wage in the region. The White House is considering advising the Labor Department to become more objective and include some nonunion wages in its calculations...
...employers' most effective tactic is simply to pay wages and benefits as generous as those a union might win. Union wages generally still exceed those in comparable nonunion jobs?by 16%, at last count in 1975?and are rising faster. But GM, for example, has increased pay in its Southern plants to parity with what U.A.W. members get in the North. Unions, ironically, have been victimized by their own success in making company-paid pensions, medical insurance, longer vacations and similar fringes universal. Even the sons and daughters of diehard unionists feel they have no need to sign a union...
...shut an entire construction site went down to a totally unexpected defeat in the House. Two months ago, the unions lost on a labor-reform bill that they regarded as vital to reverse their decline in membership. The bill, among other things, would have allowed organizers easier access to nonunion shops...