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Peace, or at least a cease-fire that has endured for 15 months, is behind Israel's problems. Beguiled by safety, Israeli wage earners at all levels are demanding pay increases in order to meet higher taxes and spiraling living costs (an 11% increase so far this year). Postal workers deliver the mail at a snail's pace. Grocers recently struck to protest Israel's 20% devaluation in the wake of U.S. economic moves. Customs inspectors have disrupted the export-import trade with brief but frequent strikes. Even hospital staffs and lifeguards have walked off their jobs...
...lowest in the West. White-collar clerical, governmental and other service positions, filled primarily by the white majority and in an expanding sector of the economy, have resisted unionization almost totally. Although recent improvements in organization in this sector have been evidenced by wild-cat police and postal worker strikes, much work needs to be done...
...News. Though rising costs, a depressed economy and competition from television for consumer advertising all hurt, Cowles cited a planned second-class postal rate increase as the final crusher that forced him to fold the flagship of Cowles Communications Inc. The proposed new rates would more than double mailing costs for all U.S. magazines, and would have sent Look's postal bill rocketing from $4,000,000 to $10 million in five years. Cowles called the increase "unconscionably high and a complete reversal of U.S. postal policy since the days of Benjamin Franklin, who felt that the cost...
...survive." Said Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell of Time Inc.: "It is always bad news for this country when a responsible journal is forced to close down. It is particularly bad news when that development is in part engendered by an arm of the Government-in this case the postal service, which has already taken the first step in raising second-class mail rates to irresponsibly high levels...
...what effect-if any-the freeze has had. Unemployment in August rose to 6.1%, bolstering the Administration's argument that Nixon acted none too soon. WAGES. Taking their cue from top labor leaders, few unions decided to fight the freeze. But a group of unions representing 650,000 postal workers went to court seeking a ruling that Nixon's ban on pay raises already agreed to in collective bargaining is unconstitutional. To set an example for private employers, Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to delay pay raises for civilian federal employees and the military...