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...Roman Catholic cathedral in Phnom Penh has been razed, and even the native Buddhism is reviled as a "reactionary" religion. There are no private telephones, no forms of public transportation, no postal service, no universities. A Scandinavian diplomat who last year visited Phnom Penh-today a ghost city of shuttered shops, abandoned offices and painted-over street signs-said on his return: "It was like an absurd film; it was a nightmare. It is difficult to believe it is true...
There can be no such excuses or explanations for the other pace-setting labor negotiation of 1978, covering 570,000 postal workers. Those talks should come to a climax this week, and Bosworth's jaw-boners have been in on them from the start. The unions demand a 14% increase in the first year of a two-year contract, well above the 5.5% that the Administration has recommended for federal employees. Postal workers already earn an average of $8 an hour, vs. $5.51 for private nonfarm workers, and they enjoy a "no layoff' clause that the Postal Service...
Some 4,000 postal workers, many from New York City branches that struck illegally in 1970, demonstrated noisily in front of Postal Service headquarters in Washington. Waving placards reading NO CONTRACT, NO WORK, they threatened to defy federal law and walk out if a settlement is not reached by the deadline this Thursday...
Carter's inflation fighters cannot afford another grossly inflationary settlement, after having lost earlier this year on the mine workers and then the railway men. If postal workers do, in fact, win a fat raise, it would not only lead to higher postage rates, but leave no hope of holding the line on the Teamsters, the Auto Workers, the Electrical Workers and Building and Construction Trades unions next year...
...union reportedly moderated its wage demands in return for a pledge from the Postal Service that it would stick to a no-layoff position...