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...About 100 University dining hall workers stage a lunchtime walkout to hold an "emergency meeting" after a kitchen manager threatens to fire their chief shop steward--because he allegedly cooked hamburgers too long. In February, the University suspends an activist shop steward--for cooking cauliflower au gratin too long...
Shortly before 5 a.m. Friday, a bleary-eyed Marvin Miller, executive director of the Players Association, and Ray Grebey, the owners' negotiator, shook hands on what Miller called a "miracle" agreement that averted a walkout by the players. Left unresolved was the pivotal question of how a club should be compensated when one of its players turns free agent and is hired away by another team. But it appeared that the owners left the bargaining table with a narrow victory on this point, while losing gracefully on pensions and salaries. Admitted Phil Garner, second baseman and player representative...
...which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike, and the élan that New Yorkers had shown in the first week of the walkout had washed away...
Mayor Edward Koch's aides estimated that firms lost about $100 million each day. The walkout cost the city about $3 million a day in lost sales taxes and other revenue, as well as overtime pay for police and firemen. Some of that loss, however, will be offset by the daily savings of $2 million from not operating the transit system and by the Taylor Law penalties...
...didn't go to the park but I have been going crazy wondering about the possibility of the major league players going on strike. It seems likely, since the player vote is now something like 500 to 1 in favor of a walkout. My friend might be on the curb for awhile...