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Leaders of New York's municipal unions headed by Victor Gotbaum, executive director of the State, County and Municipal Employees Union, were outraged and threatened to go to court to block the dropout. City officials may seek concessions from the unions in upcoming negotiations in return for sticking with Social Security. Elsewhere, employees have favored quitting. In March 1975, 14 of the 15 bargaining units representing the employees of Sacramento County, Calif, asked the board of supervisors to study alternatives to Social Security; three months later the county filed its intent to withdraw...
Next day, however, Feinstein and other labor leaders-notably Albert Shanker of the United Federation of Teachers, Victor Gotbaum of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Ken McFeeley of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association-were talking more calmly. Moreover, while TIME correspondents found that union members were universally unhappy with Beame and his cost-cutting plans, most were not enthusiastic about striking. Explained an adviser to several of the labor leaders: "They are aware that if the police, the firemen and the bridge tenders go out, there could be chaos, there could be deaths. It would...
...workers to participate in the organization of the work process. "And I supported that strike," Harrington says. "But we're in a tough position. It's the same thing in New York, where the civil servants crossed the teachers' picket lines. Now we don't like it. but Vic Gotbaum's our friend. Woodcock's our friend, too. And we don't want to embarass them...
Most Restive. In addition to Gotbaum, leaders of some 20 other unions agreed to the compromise, but three key labor chieftains refused to go along: Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Ken McFeeley, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association; and Michael Maye, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association. Since the members of these unions are generally more highly paid than Gotbaum's municipal workers, they would be hurt the most by the arrangement. Their members are also the most restive; in fact, Maye, a boisterous former Golden Gloves boxer, was recently voted into office...
Toughest Talks. Much will depend on the civic-mindedness of the membership of the unions, which are eventually expected to ratify the agreement, however grudgingly. In the case of the police and firemen, the city may have to add some sweeteners to break down their resistance. Gotbaum, who describes the negotiations as the toughest he has ever witnessed, declared: "The workers are identifying with the city." Banker Rohatyn left the sessions with heightened respect for the men who sat across the table from him and only rarely pounded on it. "What impressed me most about those guys," he said...