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Dunlop said that a wide variety of arrangements are now being used throughout the country to deal with strikes by public employees. In Boston, the Transit Authority has an agreement with the union that if the two are unable to reach a settlement, they will submit the dispute to arbitration...
...unfortunate that in your otherwise sound editorial on the New York transit strike you found it necessary to pay obeisance to the prevailing impertinence of the New York Times editorial page by including the usual perfunctory criticism of Michael J. Quill. Although it tiptoes around it, the Crimson ignores the fact that under any circumstances collective bargaining is essentially an adversary process, in which both sides negotiate from a position of strength...
...effect Mayor Lindsay escalated the conflict between the Transit Authority and the Transit Workers' Union by attempting to deny to the TWU any course of action save acceptance of his egoistic statement of what they were entitled to in the public interest. The tragedy of this colossal arrogance on the Mayor's part is that in the unlimited conflict which he made inevitable, the transit workers emerged with more than they probably deserved, more than they have ever gotten before, and as the only group in the city not seriously hurt by the strike. Perhaps even more serious, the Mayor...
...with a $6200 income to send several children to college. Just because there are other people who ought to be making more money (teachers come to mind, although in general teacher salaries have been rising fairly rapidly in the last ten years) is no reason why transit workers should not be earning something nearer the wages which other city employees get for comparable work...
...jokes with him, Mayor Lindsay seems to have treated him with that cold distaste and haughty contempt that characterize recent New York Times editorials. "If he wants to talk to me so much," Mike Quill reportedly said after one of the few times Lindsay had bothered to enter the transit negotiations, "then why does he insist on looking over the top of my head?" It should hardly be necessary to point out which Mayor's approach has been the more successful in protecting the public interest by preventing or settling a strike...