Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strike, No Lockout. Even before he was installed in office, Goldberg had begun gathering facts about a tugboat and railroad strike that was tying up New York and was threatening to spread south and west. Right after his swearing-in ceremony, he got Kennedy's permission to intervene. He was at the bargaining table the next afternoon, and by 6 o'clock the following morning, after 14 straight hours of negotiation, he had stopped the strike by guaranteeing to both parties that the key issue of job security would be kept open and resolved in a year...
...battered tugboat churned into Ramsgate Harbor one day in 1940, the exhausted troops aboard noticed tricolor bunting in the streets. A French liaison officer, observing the welcome, could only wonder: "If this is the way the British celebrate a defeat, how do they celebrate a victory...
...tried, and failed. New York state's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller tried, and made no visible progress. Then, on the day after he was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Labor, longtime Union Lawyer Arthur Goldberg flew to Manhattan to make his own effort toward ending the railroad-tugboat strike that had stranded some 100,000 commuters and stalled railroad travel as far west as Chicago. After 14 hours behind closed doors with union and management negotiators, Goldberg emerged triumphant-and next day the trains began to run again...
...same basic idea of waiting had been alternately proposed and rejected by both sides before Goldberg arrived. He won agreement by arranging for the Mitchell Commission to consider the tugboat dispute separately and promising that the federal, state and city governments would prod labor and management alike to heed the commission proposals. Clearly, the Goldberg settlement marked a victory in politics and public relations for the Kennedy Administration and set it on a course apart from the Eisenhower Administration in labor policy...
Labor was beginning to look forward with anticipation to the Kennedy era. Said Seafarers Union Skipper Paul Hall of the tugboat strike: "The railroads got the hell kicked out of 'em. Now that the railroad brotherhoods have seen this, they got blood on their teeth. They will be a helluva lot tougher...