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...While I disagreed with your jaundiced view of strikes against the Government, I liked the positive approach of the article urging realistic pay scales, good working conditions and an adequate collective bargaining machinery for our postal employees [March...
...even more expensive, and far more important settlement averted the threat of still another mail strike. In negotiations with Administration officials, and with the assistance of A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, the postal unions won a 6% raise-not only for themselves, but for all 5,300,000 civilian and military employees-retroactive to Dec. 27. That raise is slightly larger than one that had been due in July. The 725,000 postal workers will get another 8% whenever they, the Administration and Congress can agree on Post Office reorganization. The deal will cost the nation $1.2 billion...
There are important differences between the case of the postal workers and that of the air controllers. Nonetheless, the two problems underscore a broad dilemma for the Government. Because it failed to act on its employees' grievances until too late, the Government has been forced to reward an illegal walkout by granting at least some of the strikers' demands. New policies are clearly required to prevent such binds in the future. A policy of pre-emptive concession is needed first-a system sufficiently alert to spot legitimate complaints early and flexible enough to satisfy them before the atmosphere...
WHILE the postal dispute centered on the clear-cut issue of wages, the Government's conflict with air-traffic controllers is far more complex. It involves a challenge to the efficacy of Federal Aviation Administration equipment and safety procedures as well as salary, working conditions, rivalry among unions and the personality of Attorney F. Lee Bailey...
Died. Jesse M. Donaldson, 84, onetime $11-a-week letter carrier who became Postmaster General from 1947 to 1953; of a stroke; in Kansas City, Mo. The son of a rural postmaster, Donaldson served as a postal inspector, postal administrator, and First Assistant Postmaster General before becoming the first career man to head the department...