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...ruling marked the first enforcement of the state's new Taylor Law. Last month it replaced the Condon-Wadlin Act, which had required such harsh punishment that it was rarely enforced. (Transport Workers President Mike Quill was jailed during an illegal strike in 1966, but the penalty was for contempt of court, not violation of Condon-Wadlin.) The Taylor Law is an attempt to deal with a growing tendency among public-employee unions to ignore injunctions and strike anyway (TIME, Sept. 29). It holds unions responsible, where Condon-Wadlin used to be aimed against the individual employee. When...
...transit workers' strike that crip pled Manhattan last month was clearly illegal. And the Transit Authority's will ingness to end the walkout by agreeing to pay an estimated $60 million in wage boosts and fringe benefits was hardly more correct. New York's tough Condon-Wadlin Act not only forbids strikes by public employees but prohibits pay raises to strikers for three years after they go back to work. Still, most New Yorkers - from Mayor John Lindsay to the harried commuters - were willing to forgive and forget...
Verbal Spanking. Judge Saypol, who last year upheld the constitutionality of the Condon-Wadlin Act, solemnly warned the authority not to follow "any course which would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...
Under New York State's Condon-Wadlin Act, strikes by public employees are illegal. The act, however, has not prevented several strikes in recent years, Dunlop pointed out, including one by city welfare workers. "The machinery of the past has not worked very well, and it must be replaced by new procedures," he said...
Nearly all labor-law experts feel that public employees cannot be handled by simply barring unions or outlawing strikes. To be sure, the presence of unions fosters strikes to some extent. And the federal antistrike law (unlike New York's Condon-Wadlin Act) has proved highly effective. In light of the public sector's enormous labor growth, however, the experts argue that strong laws alone will no longer do. Sound bargaining and judicious injunctions, they say, are the modern way to help political leaders avoid strikes and aid the public weal...