Word: transit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tamed the gods of the formerly chaotic marketplace. This power shift has left loose ends. Labor's coercive power to strike, for example, is no longer directed against private management but against the public; it is not always used legitimately or even legally, as in the New York transit strike of 1966. An extended dialogue (e.g., about compulsory arbitration) is required to reach a clearer idea system about the limits on economic power...
...only Limousine Liberal John Lindsay & Co. had to ride the subways to work. If they had to send their children to public instead of private school. If they had to put up with the garbage men, teachers and transit workers going on strike. If they had to see their tax money spent on creating the welfare state that exists in New York City while they were working two jobs just to make ends meet. Then, and only then, maybe they would learn that people who do not live with the problems of the middle class cannot go about handing...
Plenty has. Lindsay set out to tame the tough civil service unions and to prevent threatened strikes by public employees; such strikes are illegal in the state. Instead, he and the city suffered through a numbing series of strikes, starting with a transit stoppage on his very first day in office. Since then, sanitation workers, teachers, welfare-department employees and others have also struck. To prevent still more stoppages, Lindsay has been compelled to make extremely high wage settlements...
...transit strike was Lindsay's Bay of Pigs, continuing school troubles and ethnic tensions have been his Viet Nam. The overriding aim of his administration, particularly during his first three years, was to assuage the bitterness of the city's black citizens. In doing so, he managed to increase white resentment and fears. The first test came in 1966 when he tried to organize a civilian review board to hear complaints of police brutality. Lindsay was cast in the role of a softie trying to shackle honest cops; the review-board referendum was defeated. A less stubborn, less
...power since May 1968. But far deeper causes underlie much of the labor unrest. Italian workers are caught between the higher cost of living brought on by the nation's celebrated II Boom and a notoriously unresponsive national leadership. Italy's public services, from education to rapid transit, are among the poorest in Western Europe...