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...labor peace -at a stiff price. Last month Usery produced a settlement that ended a Teamsters strike after only two days but will oblige trucking companies to raise drivers' wages and benefits by nearly 33% over three years. His next job will be to settle the month-old walkout of rubber workers (negotiations resume this week) before shortages of tires begin closing down auto plants. After that come tricky negotiations in the construction, electrical and auto industries...
...That job led to a 1973 appointment as head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Along the way, Usery honed his skills as a peacemaker in dozens of bitter disputes, including the 1970 postal workers' strike, the 1972 teachers' strike in Philadelphia, last September's walkout at National Airlines and even the wildcat strike of players in the National Football League...
...strike illustrates a growing danger for the economy: what had been expected to be a relatively peaceful labor-bargaining climate this year is turning testy. The walkout will not immediately hurt national production, but a long strike could damage the recovery, and a high settlement could pump up now-subsiding inflation. Unhappily, the nation is almost sure to get one or the other outcome, if not both. As one Detroit Uniroyal worker put it, "We settled short last time, and now business is booming and we gotta get ours...
...similar jobs in other California cities-not, as in the past, to wages paid in private industry. To add to San Francisco's misery, drivers for Yellow Cab, the city's largest fleet, were also on strike for a while. By week's end, however, their walkout was settled, slightly easing the transportation scarcity...
...Franciscans have endured two municipal employees' strikes in the past two years (the most recent was a three-day-long police and firemen's walkout last August), and were ready to cope. Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge was tied up for extended rush hours but never hopelessly snarled. Some 500,000 regular users of city transportation (including thousands of schoolchildren) had to find another way to get to their destinations. Most hiked or biked uncomplainingly up the city's hills. But more than a third of the student body was absent because some school-bus service...