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Once they are in a union, public employees immediately see further differences. Thus in Manhattan, drivers on the buses operated by the public Transit Authority are covered by the no-strike law, while those driving for the privately owned Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Co. are under no such restriction. Fired by the Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission after a 1966 strike, garbage men in suburban Washington savored the immense satisfaction of going back to work-at the higher wages they had demanded-for the private contractor to whom the commission had let the new refuse-collection contract. Amid such...
...book did more than add a colorful catch phrase to the language. With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector?housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare?it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. "I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend," he said, "if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted...
...long delay in finding another site for the Bennett transit facility could post-pone ground-breaking beyond that date. If this happens, a Library spokesman said last night, the MBTA will probably be given an extension on the use of Bennett...
...million plan, revealed February 1, includes replacing trolley service between Ashmont and Mattapan with a rapid transit line, closing three stations in Milton, and building a new maintenance and storage facility in Mattapan Square for 100 cars...
Brooks, however, is not satisfied with these arguments. He said that closing three Milton stations would inconvenience a large number of people, the cost of the plan would mean unnecessarily increased tax assessments, and running rapid transit into an area where only 1500 people board per day is wasteful...