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...Vikki Wulf, the only woman not to sign theletter distributed this week, would not commentlast night. Another third-year woman, who joinedthe Review just this year unlike the others, alsodid not sign the letter...
...public workers' union demanded a 9.5% wage increase while the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl argued that anything over 4.8%, or just enough to cover the inflation rate, would damage the economy. Last week the government was forced to offer 5.4%. The union leadership accepted, and chairwoman Monika Wulf-Mathies called it "a political victory." Minister of Special Tasks Rudolf Seiters, the government's chief negotiator, warned that the settlement would slow the country's economic growth. When federal, state and local costs were added up, he said, the government outlays would increase $10 billion this year. Rank-and-file...
...wage hike they squeezed out of the government is, ironically, precisely the amount accepted by the union and rejected by the government when an arbitrator recommended it well before the strike began on April 27. The union's chief weapon was its shrewd, tough-talking president, Monika Wulf- Mathies, who brilliantly calibrated the walkouts to demonstrate the union's power without antagonizing the public. No more than 430,000 members stayed off the job at any one time, limiting the strike's damage to levels other citizens could tolerate. Business losses and public inconvenience were held to a minimum...
...that was the same Roby who was quoted in last week's Sports Illustrated. In the Scorecard section edited by Steve Wulf, Roby is quoted on his theory of recruiting. "If I ask a kid how he did on his boards, and he says 'twelve a game'", Roby said, "I know he's not coming to Harvard...
...such move is liable to trigger harsh union reaction. In response to a relatively mild Kohl proposal for limiting public-sector wage increases, Monika Wulf-Mathies, leader of the country's 1 .2 million-member civil servants union, called the plan a "declaration of war," and threatened strike action if the proposal is carried out. Having long and patiently planned his parliamentary assault on the Chancellor's office, Kohl must now prepare for all the battles that his new job will entail...