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Next day, however, Feinstein and other labor leaders-notably Albert Shanker of the United Federation of Teachers, Victor Gotbaum of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Ken McFeeley of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association-were talking more calmly. Moreover, while TIME correspondents found that union members were universally unhappy with Beame and his cost-cutting plans, most were not enthusiastic about striking. Explained an adviser to several of the labor leaders: "They are aware that if the police, the firemen and the bridge tenders go out, there could be chaos, there could be deaths. It would...
Much of the blame for bureaucratic slackness rests with the public-service unions whose rigid rules impair productivity. It takes yards of red tape and constant bickering to shift anyone to another department or category. Only by sweetening fringe benefits three years ago could the city persuade the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to allow more men to be put on the streets during the high-crime shift from 4 p.m. to midnight...
Harvard negotiators and representatives of the Patrolmen's Association, the University police force union, made "no progress" toward an agreement on a new police contract at a mediation session held in Boston yesterday, Lawrence Letteri, the union's president, said last night...
...patrolmen in the union have been working without a contract since June 30, when a two-year pact expired. A state mediator was asked to assist in the negotiations in the late summer, after months of talks resulted in a stalemate...
Ford flew first to Chicago, where the Secret Service had requested the local police to impose the tightest security in the city's history: some 1,000 patrolmen and plainclothesmen were assigned. Also on hand were at least 100 Secret Service agents and an undisclosed number from the FBI. The area outside...