Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, the Peace Corps still appeals to the innate altruism of American youth, and virtually every country to which volunteers have been assigned has welcomed them, asked for more and often given singular send-offs to homebound Corpsmen who have completed their tours of duty. In a remote settlement in Southern India recently, a young Corpsman announced that he would soon be returning to the U.S. to get married. Distraught villagers tried to induce him to stay by offering him anything he might want-including his pick of the local maidens...
...fumes had never smelled so good, nor had the rumble of the subways sounded so musical. The great New York City transit strike was over. Now came the financial reckoning. For the bankrupt New York City Transit Authority, the $52 million settlement-$16 million more than the 1963 package-was bad enough, but it was almost microscopic compared with the transit union's original demands of $680 million. The strikers received a 15% wage increase spread over two years and substantially improved fringe benefits, failed to get a requested 32-hour week and six weeks' vacation after...
...Johnson felt obliged to ask for new legislation to prevent similar strikes. ≫ The Johnson Administration seemed preoccupied with an attempt to cause Mayor Lindsay political embarrassment. It remained largely mum during the strike, did not denounce the union's fatuous demands, then piously reproved Lindsay for a settlement that "violated" federal wage-price guidelines...
Having done nothing to help end the New York City transit strike, President Johnson was on doubtful ground when he denounced the settlement as a violation of the Government's supposedly voluntary wage-price guidelines. Even more questionable was Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's after-the-settlement attempt to blame beleaguered Republican Mayor John Lindsay for the guideline violation. The N.Y. Times described the remarks of Democrats Johnson and Wirtz as "blatantly political"-which of course they were. Yet even such editorial cavils served only to obscure some more basic questions-relating to the rather remarkable history...
...Either transit fares or real estate taxes seem sure to go up in San Francisco because of the costly settlement that ended New York City's twelve-day transit strike. Transit wages in the Golden Gate city are tied by contract formula to those in New York, highest in the nation. As a result, San Francisco's transit wage bill could rise by $572,000 a year next July 1 and by another $1,600,000 a year in 1967. Meeting that cost would require a 100 rise in realty taxes, from today's rate...