Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding in an open car the Pope rolled through city and town. Spires, lampposts, postmen's bicycles, railroad stations, pretty girls' balconies, all were ablaze with flowers, and the tails of innumerable papal banners, yellow and white, the colors of the Supreme Pontiff from distant Rome, fluttered against a blue...
...Postmen stay at work...
Though the postmen had initially demanded wage increases that would have totaled 14% in the first year alone, the real sticking point in the talks was that the Postal Service wanted to drop the no-layoff clause that was in the old contract. The unions feared that increasing automation in the sorting of mail could put more and more of their members out of work. Finally, at 10 p.m. last Thursday, two hours before the formal expiration of the contract, the Postal Service negotiators agreed to retain the no-layoff clause, and progress on the other issues came almost immediately...
BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS. From auto workers to postmen, union leaders are endorsing Carter and assigning volunteers to register new voters and pound pavements. Boasts Thomas Bradley, head of the Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions: "I haven't seen such unanimity among different unions since the Johnson-Goldwater election." This year, union help will be particularly valuable because what labor does on its own is not subject to the new federal election spending limits...
...lucky: she was hired as Ethel Kennedy's social secretary at Hickory Hill, Va. Pilots Mel Vos and John Stout are doing all right; they have gone into the tree-planting business northwest of Chicago. Some of their fellow crew members at United Air Lines are becoming postmen, salesmen and teachers. Others are still looking, and growing more desperate. For 16,500 U.S. airline employees suddenly out of work (of a total force of 300,000), the new lean look of air travel has brought a wrenching change...