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...partly to protect that record that O'Brien is now laboring for Humphrey's election. "If we fail," he says, "it will signal a slowdown in the nation, an unwinding of what we have done...
Ticket Strike. Other slowdowns have taken a variety of forms. To back up their demands for higher pay and shorter working hours, Kansas City firemen resorted to a slowdown in 1966 during which they continued to answer alarms but refused to keep records, make safety inspections or clean up debris after fires. Detroit policemen, demanding more money and better work conditions, staged a brief "ticket strike" last year, deliberately cut the number of summonses issued for minor traffic violations by 50%. Slowdowns also occur when workers phone in sick in large numbers, a ruse used over the past 18 months...
Such tactics often prove remarkably successful. Last fall 800 Los Angeles County probation officers deliberately dragged their heels on the job, winning a reduction of case loads in the process. Far more dramatic is the current slowdown by Federal Aviation Administration air-traffic controllers, which has snarled airports in metropolitan New York and elsewhere with flight delays. Unhappy over a manpower shortage and congested skyways, the traffic controllers have been playing strictly by the rule book in clearing planes for take-offs and landings. They scored one breakthrough earlier this month when Congress empowered the FAA to hire an additional...
Minor League Activity. Nowhere have slowdowns caused more trouble than in New York City. Last summer more than 3,000 city welfare employees staged a "work-in," during which they showed up at the office but refused to process cases. Unhappy over slow progress in contract talks, 115 nurses at two city hospitals phoned in sick one day this month, an epidemic that forced doctors and supervisory personnel to take over their chores. Three weeks ago, embroiled in a dispute over how many new fire fighters the force should hire, uniformed firemen and the city averted a threatened slowdown only...
This week the 1,000-member subway-supervisors union plans to meet and decide what action to take if there is no progress on contract negotiations with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The union may strike or show its grievance with a slowdown. Even if it chooses the latter course, says Union Chief Frank Tedesco, the troubles for the city's 4,500,000 daily subway riders would "make the Long Island Rail Road tie-up look like minor-'league activity...