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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...
...York City's Transit Authority, which must depend on the city's help to meet legal requirements that it be selfsupporting, tried to head off a strike, got a court order on Dec. 30 asking the T.W.U. to show cause why it should not be enjoined from striking. Mike Quill ripped the court papers to pieces before the TV cameras. Cried he: "I predict that we are in for a terrible strike." Lindsay had no legal rights to enter the conflict until his inauguration, but once the transit workers walked off the job on New Year...
...than the exception. In ways that some thought naive and others admirable, John Lindsay quickly made it clear that he intended to go by the book, like the good trial lawyer he was before entering Congress. He refused to inject himself as a private manipulator between Quill and the Transit Authority, insisted that the three-man team of mediators be the only go-between. He made it clear that labor would no longer be able to make any sub rosa deals with the mayor...
Quill's original demands on the Transit Authority were so outlandish that few people took them seriously. In a 76-point package, which he blandly labeled "very modest requests," Quill demanded that the Authority increase the T.W.U.'s contract for 1966-67 by nearly 2,000% over the old one-including an increase of more than $2 per hour, a 32-hour week, and six weeks of vacation after one year on the job (present vacation: five weeks after 25 years). The Transit Authority figured that the package would cost $680 million, or one-fifth of the entire...
Both Lindsay and the Transit Authority agreed that New York's subway and bus workers needed a raise to bring them more nearly into line with city workers of equivalent talent and status, but nothing on the order of what Mike Quill asked for. Top wage for T.W.U. members working for the Transit Authority is $3.57 an hour, for work that includes everything from driving the underground trains (a job that requires 280 hours of schooling) to repairing buses. Even though New York's T.W.U. men lead their union in nationwide pay, they lag behind many municipal workers...