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...bowler Carmen Salvino, for example."), makers of the sort of athletic equipment used in suburbs not blessed with tennis courts. That's bowling balls and pool tables. At the local station, the Letter Carriers union hands over a check, explaining the money was raised at a softball game between postal supervisors and "the credit union girls." Firefighters from all over; "what with Prop 2 1/2 and all," one Boston fireman explains, "it's been a tough year for us." But still they got out and collected, filled the boot, had a tag day. The Pioneers, telephone company employees with...
...Canada this summer, federally employed postal workers went on strike, delaying mail for more than two months and imperiling several small businesses. The postal employees have a legal right to strike, but Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau came under fire for not dealing with the dispute as "strongly" as Reagan dealt with PATCO...
Renewed inflation is certain to bring escalating demands for wage increases by Canadian workers and more labor unrest. Just last week the nation's postal system resumed operations after a six-week strike by 23,000 postal clerks. Mail delivery was brought to a halt, and the economy suffered an estimated $350 million in business-related losses. A key issue in the strike: a union demand for 17 weeks of maternity leave at 93% of full...
Though Reagan seemed to be taking a safe and popular course in facing down the controllers, failure to do so could have been costly. For one thing, other federal unions?most of them quite small, but a few, including the postal workers, strong and increasingly restive?were warily watching the Administration's attitude toward Government strikers. Said one Reagan aide, drawing a rather far-fetched analogy: "If you cave in to a group like this, that has a stranglehold on public safety, what do you do, for example, when the Army wants to strike? It's the same thing...
...bound coal mines seized in 1946, railroads in 1950 and steel mills in 1952. Richard Nixon in 1970 sent military troops into post offices where federal employees had illegally left their jobs. Still, taking on the controllers was not quite as difficult as facing down coal, steel, railroad and postal workers?who have far more members and political clout than doesPATCO...