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...Transit Authority made another offer, upping the ante to a $40 million package, and the union, having come down to $180 million, cut its demands even more. But the two could not seem to come any closer, and the bargaining mood worsened after the Transit Authority turned down union bids to have Quill and his eight colleagues released from custody. President Johnson sent Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz to New York to discuss the impasse with negotiators, and Wirtz returned to Washington to report gloomily: "The situation still remains uncertain and serious." In response to an appeal from Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...Transit Board upped the pressure on the union at week's end by asking the courts for a $322,000-a-day retroactive fine against the T.W.U., whose total treasury is so modest (less than $1,000,000) that it does not even pay its union members strike benefits. That only made the T.W.U. madder and brought charges that the Authority was trying to bust the union. "As a result," said Douglas MacMahon, "negotiations are now at a standstill." No one was quite sure just how long New Yorkers would have to walk, but everyone suddenly recalled that Mike...
...after 9 p.m. on school nights, 10 p.m. on holidays. Children's performances of plays, movies and sports events must end half an hour before curfew. Any child who wants to go may have to walk-not be cause Moscow suffers from any such capitalist nonsense as a transit strike, but because bicycles are forbidden at all times to youngsters under 14, motorbikes to all under 16. Also no-go in most of the snowbound capital are sleds and skis, because they "disturb public order." Presumably young Muscovites will now have plenty of time to curl up with...
Despite all these precedents, New York City last week was paralyzed by a massive strike of public-transit workers (see THE NATION). As in other recent New York strikes involving teachers and welfare workers, no official dared invoke the Condon-Wadlin Act, the nation's toughest state antistrike statute. The law requires that all striking public employees be fired, forbids those that are rehired from getting pay raises for three years, and puts them on probation for five years. Since all this virtually guarantees that strikers will never go back to work, the law has rarely been invoked since...
Some labor-law experts would allow strikes by "nonessential" public employees, such as Government clerks, while retaining the strike ban for such essential employees as policemen, firemen and public-transit workers. Indeed, Puerto Rico permits that distinction in its commonwealth constitution. One potential effect, of course, is that strikes might eventually be banned for private "essential" employees, such as defense workers...