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...bureau four years later. As soon as he arrived in the Motor City, Sullivan was greeted by his first big labor assignment: interviewing the late Walter Reuther. In Detroit, and later in our Houston and Washington bureaus, he reported on many major labor-management rifts, including a nationwide U.A.W. walkout against General Motors, three railroad strikes, a newspaper strike and last year's postal walkout...
...granted a 42% wage hike, the United Transportation Union was resisting changes in costly and long-obsolete work rules, fearing they would lead to a restricting of both income and jobs. Nixon did summon leaders of both sides to express his concern, and Mc-Cracken explained that if the walkout continues through August it would reduce the anticipated gross national product by $50 billion-three times the cost of the General Motors strike. Although the usual emergency legislation to stop a rail strike was prepared, by week's end Nixon had not yet asked Congress...
...than two months of desultory negotiations, the strike deadline for the troubled steel industry passed last week without a settlement-and without a strike. In a surprise last-minute decision, management and labor agreed to stretch the bargaining for 24 hours past Saturday midnight, the time set for a walkout. United Steel Workers President I.W. Abel, chief labor negotiator in the contract talks involving 350,000 workers, announced the extension and then headed back for another night of talks with R. Heath Larry, who heads the management team for nine big steelmakers. And the nation continued to face the prospect...
...tougher question is how much of the increase will be "front loaded" in the first year and how much will be spread over the life of the contract. Officials of the Government, steel management and the union believe that there will be either no strike or merely a short walkout that would scarcely hurt the economy, since steel users have built up a 60-day stockpile...
...sloppiest, meanest strike in the city's history," Victor Gotbaum, executive director of Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called out some 7,300 workers in an effort to persuade the legislature to change its mind. More than 600 Teamsters joined the walkout...