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...administration. Unless they can have more of a say in Blue Cross, labor leaders claim they will start their own health plans and hospitals. (It might be added that hospital officials thought the "tolerating excessive costs" charge ironic in view of the attempt of unions to organize underpaid non-professional hospital workers last spring.) Furthermore, national health insurance, while not a political football at present, could easily become so with enough encouragement from labor leaders...
Good Money = Good Press. In their appetite for these hidden assets, Mexico's underpaid newsmen, whose visible salaries range from $2 to $8.13 a day, leave hardly a news beat unexploited. Bullfighters commonly reserve up to one-third of a season's take for newspaper, radio and TV critics, who might otherwise ungraciously give top billing to the bulls. For pesos the journalists make lackluster movies seem works of art, and prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next...
...heeded the call. Claimed the union: 3,200 out of 4,300 were out. But there was no question as to the issues: the union wanted recognition to bargain collectively for the workers, 27,000 of whom in New York City's 82 voluntary, nonprofit hospitals are woefully underpaid.* Local 1199 charged that the bulk of them make less than $40 (some as little as $32) for a work week of 40 hours or more, with no overtime or fringe benefits. Many also get relief payments to eke out a living. In hospitals operated by the city itself, corresponding...
Rhetorical Question. The hospitals were in a financial bind. All operate at whopping deficits (up to $1,872,000 last year for Manhattan's Mount Sinai, biggest of those struck). Retorted the union: underpaid employees should not be called on to subsidize hospitals. A major drain on the voluntary hospitals has been that the city pays them only $16 a day for care of indigent patients, though it budgets $28 a day in its own hospitals. On July 1 it will begin paying $20, and the hospitals promised to use the extra funds to raise nonprofessional workers...
...Admiral's prescription for our time is perhaps the only possible: self denial, self discipline, and hard work, in school or out. To blame our schools for popular hedonism, complacency, chauvinism, or plain stupidity is dangerously simplistic. The underpaid, undertrained, and often underdeveloped minds which staff many of our classrooms make good scapegoats, but they are relatively helpless victims of the cultural tragedy which we are now enacting...