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...While your report on the strike of some municipal employees in Baltimore [July 22] accurately presented some of the facts about the walkout, it failed to capture the sense of civic pride that was so strongly demonstrated by citizens and municipal employees during this period of potential crisis. Thousands of Baltimoreans transported their own refuse to the four large landfills that remained open throughout the strike. Also, 38,000 municipal employees continued to work-including a few who remained on duty for up to 50 straight hours to ensure that city services were maintained...
Wrong Number. Last weekend negotiators struggled to avert a nationwide walkout by 710,000 Bell Telephone System employees. The Bell workers' motives were not unlike those of employees in other industries riddled with or threatened by strikes. American Telephone & Telegraph had offered wage increases averaging 9.4% this year and totaling 15% over the next three years...
Perhaps most ominous, civil servants were showing a distinctly uncivil tendency to walk off their jobs. In Baltimore, the walkout by 3,000 trash collectors, jail guards, zookeepers and other city workers ended when the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees reached agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum...
...declaring that Baltimore (pop. 900,000) would henceforth be known as "Charm City, U.S.A." The gesture was spectacularly ill-timed. Next day, Baltimore, which was already mired in a ten-day-old strike by 3,000 garbage collectors, zookeepers, jail guards and sewage workers, was hit with a police walkout that brought on sporadic looting and arson...
...raises for the unions. He also succeeded in ending a three-day strike of postal workers by warning them that if they did not return to their jobs he would send in the army to sort the mail. Military arm-twisting was also used to end a month-long walkout at the Timex plant outside Lisbon...