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...must make the final decisions has been unwontedly somber since he returned to Washington last week. He has held only one press conference since August. He showed none of the old relish for open combat when confronted with the steel industry's price increase or the transit workers' strike in New York City. But the familiar ebullience has not vanished entirely; it has simply been capped for the time being, like a gusher in a Texas oil field. With his three biggest messages of the year coming up in the next few weeks-those on the State...
WASP Product. New York's great blackout in November had been caused by a mechanical failure; the transit strike was caused by a failure of communication, of understanding and of reason. It was basically the product of a bitter, and partially symbolic, conflict between...
Mike Quill has brought New York City to the brink of a transit strike dozens of times-and backed down, each time at the last minute. Quill and the city's Democratic mayors usually have worked out a cozy deal in advance, compromising between what Quill felt he needed and what the city felt it could afford. Nonetheless, Quill was always allowed to run through his biennial charade, dramatically announcing at the last moment a settlement that had actually been agreed on days earlier. Naturally, no one took too seriously Quill's blustering about a transit strike: people...
...Transit Authority was equally ineffective at the bargaining table. Unable to tell what the union really wanted, and what the T.A. could obtain from the city and the state, it made no offer at all. Finally, on the eve of the walkout, the T.A. made a $25 million proposal based on President Johnson's 3.2 per cent non-inflationary guidelines...
...participation had not been able to avert the strike his inaction was inexcusable. But Mayor Wagner had objected to Lindsay's participation in city government before he took office. More important, was Lindsay's belief that the collective bargaining was an affair between the union and the autonomous Transit Authority. He rightly believed that the government should enter a labor dispute only when an impasse has stalled fruitful negotiations. On New Year's Day, however, despite all efforts, bargaining had hardly begun...