Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the day and night Inquirer attorneys made pleas to Rizzo and Police Commissioner O'Neill to disperse the pickets. But there was no response from either man. Finally, after the paper missed its first two editions because pressmen and mailers could not enter the building, a local judge issued a restraining order against the demonstrators. Only after a city marshal posted the order at about 11 p.m. did the pickets leave the premises...
...strike is a special dilemma for her. Cheered by liberals for the Post's role in exposing Watergate, she is now being attacked by some liberals as a union buster. "The union is to be smashed," wrote Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman last week. "Graham has accepted the pressmen's union's invitation to waltz back to the industrial warfare of the 19th century...
...presses and hit women over the head with two-by-fours. I have no lint left in my navel for that." Graham makes the same point more moderately: "We are not union busting. That means an unwillingness to bargain, which just isn't the case here. They [the pressmen] wouldn't negotiate. They busted themselves...
...central issue in the strike is economic, not personal: the pressmen's wages cost the company $5 million a year, one-third of it in overtime according to the Post. In previous contracts, management had given the pressmen control over setting people's work schedules and determining the size of work crews. The union had used this control, charged the Post, to enable the average pressman to supplement his $14,000 basic wage with $8,000 in overtime per year. Complains Graham: "They frequently scheduled themselves to get as much overtime as possible-sometimes at the expense...
Pressroom Control. In its proposals for a new contract this year, the Post offered the pressmen a 25% increase in the basic wage in three years and a $400,000 bonus, to be divided among them. In return, the paper asked to be given back control of the pressroom. The union has refused. Last week the Post began hiring 140 permanent replacements for the pressmen, while a dozen or so strikers have accepted the Post's offer to return to work "as individuals." Company executives believe some of the unions may return to work as early as next month...