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...LAST WEEK'S STRIKE OF GERMANY'S 2.3 million transport and public employees was remarkably well managed. On any one of the 11 days it lasted, only about 400,000 of the union's workers actually stayed off the job. That was sufficient to throw commuters into confusion, ground airplanes and pile up a moderate heap of uncollected garbage. It demonstrated the union's power but did not produce the elemental disorder Germans find so distasteful...
...indeed. For 11 days, Germans got an unaccustomed taste of civic disorder, when garbage collectors, transport workers and other public employees walked off their jobs in the longest and most acrimonious strike since the end of World War II. Streets stank, planes didn't fly, traffic snarled. In the end the workers prevailed, forcing the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl to surrender to a 5.4% pay raise. It was less than the unions wanted but more than Kohl felt Germany could afford...
...winners of the strike -- if it can be said to have winners -- were the 2.3 million members of the Public Services and Transport Workers' union, one of 16 giant labor combines that encompass most of western Germany's work force. The 5.4% wage hike they squeezed out of the government is, ironically, precisely the amount accepted by the union and rejected by the government when an arbitrator recommended it well before the strike began on April 27. The union's chief weapon was its shrewd, tough-talking president, Monika Wulf- Mathies, who brilliantly calibrated the walkouts to demonstrate the union...
...exacting rules of evidence employed by the Scottish police. They took the suitcase and its contents into the chopper and flew with it to an unknown destination." Several days later the empty suitcase was returned to the same spot, where Johnston reported that it was "found" by two British Transport Police officers, "who in their ignorance were quite happy to sign statements about the case's discovery...
...matter. Moments after he saw the show, a charmed Mackintosh offered to transport it from its bandbox site to the pilastered prestige of London's West End. There its exuberance and energy wedded happily with a larger space and wittier, more elaborate settings, a fantasy urban landscape in which skyscrapers look like zoot-suited people. So he decided to brave Broadway, where Five Guys Named Moe boogied in last week. It is a slight, sometimes silly but absolutely joyful experience, larkish and lighthearted and a bit like running around with a lampshade on your head...