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Wage talks moved into the hard-bargaining phase for the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 mail carriers, sorters and other employees. Their three-year contract is due to expire on July 20. A reasonable settlement with the postal workers would put pressure on the nation's 475,000 railway workers, who are demanding a three-year contract with some 30% in pay increases, and have been locked in federal mediation talks since last January...
...Administration is particularly anxious for moderate postal and railway settlements for several reasons. It badly needs to erase the unfortunate precedent that it set earlier this year when, to get coal strikers back on the job, the White House pressured the coal operators to accept an inflationary 38% increase in wages and benefits over the next three years...
...Postal Postscript
...tired of seeing and hearing the U.S. Postal Service [May 22] picked on. They are doing an excellent job. The people are courteous and friendly, and I'm constantly amazed at the speed of service. An occasional foul-up is really insignificant considering the billions of pieces of small, fragile paper handled...
Many of the nation's big wage contracts will not expire until next year, but the outcome of talks now under way with the 450,000 railroad workers and the 560,000 employees of the Postal Service are being closely watched by union leaders as indicators of future trends. The Administration is optimistic that the postal workers, whose talks enter the hard-bargaining phase this week, will cooperate. The outcome of the railroad workers' negotiations is less certain. Their contract expired at the end of last year, and Bosworth fears that the new package might well reach...