Word: postally
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...stop-the-clock postal pay deal aids the battle against inflation...
...across the country, mailmen gathered in their union offices, and as the clock approached midnight the tension began to rise. Would there or would there not be a postal strike in the morning? The answer came shortly after 4 a.m. Washington, D.C., time, when Emmet Andrews, head of the American Postal Workers Union, emerged bleary-eyed from behind closed doors at the offices of the Federal Mediation Service. After a tense, all-night bargaining session that capped 17 weeks of talks between the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 unionized employees, agreement had been reached on a new three...
...deal was bracing news not only for the postal workers, who generally expressed satisfaction with the terms, but also for Jimmy Carter. At long last, the White House could claim its first credible victory in the struggle to curb spiraling wage settlements. Big Labor's earlier successes in winning 10% or more in annual pay increases are threatening to push up still higher the nation's inflation rate, which is once again in double digits...
...postal workers' agreement, for which the Administration had tirelessly lobbied, is a small but significant departure from those egregious gains. It is also a good deal more moderate than what the postal workers had originally demanded, and could well wind up giving them somewhat lower increases than they enjoyed under their last contract...
...contract provided scheduled wage rises of about 10% over three years, 10% more in cost-of-living increases, and pushed the average pay of postal workers to a level of $7.58 an hour, vs. $5.62 for private nonfarm workers...