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...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 and railway settlements are certain to have an impact on next year's round of wage talks. There are no other big union contracts expiring this year, but several important ones come up for renewal in 1979. Among them are the United Auto Workers (with 800,000 members), the Teamsters (900,000 members), the International Union of Electrical Workers (200,000 members), and some 80,000 rubber, cork, linoleum and plastic workers. These unions have three-year contracts that now provide an average of 10% in annual pay increases, and White House officials hope to see the yearly...
...strike next month. That would be illegal, but the Postal Service is so worried that it has drawn up crisis plans to have important mail such as Social Security checks sorted and delivered by the military, including the ROTC. There is also a somewhat remote possibility of a railway strike early this autumn if a new contract cannot be achieved by the time the federal mediation period expires...
...most sensible way to get around Europe is to use its incomparable railway system. The 15-hour high-speed train trip from Paris to Rome costs only $53, plus $7.82 for a couchette berth, plus $13 for cooked-aboard dinner. Every Western European country has offices in the U.S. where the tourist can buy lower-price tickets in advance. Example: for only $115, the American who plans to visit Germany can buy a rail pass good for 16 days of unlimited travel...