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...native returning last week after an absence of two or three years might have thought for a moment that New York was catastrophe as usual. Striking pressmen, supported by other unions, shut down the city's three major daily newspapers, the New York Times, the Daily News and the Post. But the native would have been wrong. Before they closed up, the papers had reported a happier story. Sitting in City Hall at a desk that George Washington used when New York City was the capital of the U.S., Jimmy Carter signed a bill that authorizes $1.65 billion...
...city's publishers have been trying for more than 15 years to revamp their antediluvian production methods and eliminate wasteful staffing practices, but the craft unions, fearing job losses and declining membership, have always resisted. In March 1977, the Publishers Association, representing the three dailies, informed the pressmen that when the old contract expired on March 30, 1978, it intended to demand major changes in work rules. The papers hope to reduce through attrition the swollen crews and institute "room manning," a system that would employ only enough workers to run the presses efficiently. The goal is to bring...
...first time in 15 years, New York's major dailies were shut down. The 1,500-member Newspaper Printing Pressmen's Union called the strike against the Times, News and Post (combined circulation: 3.4 million) and was backed up by all but one of its nine fellow craft unions (the typesetters, the only holdouts, have a no-strike contract) as well as by the Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial employees. New Yorkers found their familiar newsstands either closed or peddling increased press runs of the Wall Street Journal and suburban papers; uninformed shoppers could not take advantage...
...four months after the contract expired, talks dragged on. To induce the union to accept the new contract, management offered tempting wage increases; the pressmen would not budge. With no agreement in sight, the papers set a deadline of Aug. 8 for a settlement and pledged to institute their new rules unilaterally if no agreement were reached. After the publishers postponed the deadline for 24 hours, the pressmen came up with a counterproposal that was swiftly rejected; the publishers left the negotiating table to post their new work conditions, and the pressmen walked...
...that the restless television cameras ignored. They found precious little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of rival factions. As Ken Galbraith looked lankily down on the serried ranks of pressmen, few of them even taking notes, he wondered aloud how any free-enterprising businessman would regard all that time and money spent for so little result...