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Though Reagan seemed to be taking a safe and popular course in facing down the controllers, failure to do so could have been costly. For one thing, other federal unions???most of them quite small, but a few, including the postal workers, strong and increasingly restive?were warily watching the Administration's attitude toward Government strikers. Said one Reagan aide, drawing a rather far-fetched analogy: "If you cave in to a group like this, that has a stranglehold on public safety, what do you do, for example, when the Army wants to strike? It's the same thing...
...familiar red. Earlier this year Koch told Congress that he anticipated no more than 4% in wage hikes for each of the next two years. Now, he expects a $265 million deficit for this year?$135 million of which is due directly to the wage settlements with the unions???and a deficit that could hit $1.2 billion...
Last week it was time to count the votes. The three main unions???the A.P.W.U., the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the Mail Handlers division of the Laborers' International Union, which together represent 497,000 of the 554,000 postal employees?rejected the contract by a close but decisive margin of 5 to 4. That same vote authorized two of the union leaders to call a strike within five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court...
...Although the office is his by birthright, Charles knows that he can succeed in it only by hard work. "I am planning to find out all I can about British life," the Prince has declared, "including the government, the civil service, business, agriculture, the unions???everything. And since I have a long time ahead of me, there is no point in trying to do everything at once." Ambitious plans, but sensible. And reassuring qualities both, in a man who will be King...
...working men and women who are expected to toil under its restrictions. The President's freeze on wages, in effect, is a sacrifice demanded of each of them. After an initial burst of optimism over the President's speech, laboring Americans?including millions who do not belong to unions???were be ginning to realize that his plan placed limits on their livelihood such as have not been dreamed of for a generation...