Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficulty with such distinctions is that they are likely to work better on paper than in the field. A study committee headed by Pennsylvania's George Taylor has termed them "administratively impossible." Where do teachers fit, for example? Do strikes in the public schools imperil either the public health or safety? And where is the line drawn in the staffs of government hospitals? Are nurses more essential than, say, laboratory technicians? In any case, there are fluctuating degrees of essentiality that defy easy definition. New York City's transit strike turned intolerable within days. But this year, residents...
...University of Wisconsin's Nathan Feinsinger, who serves as a special labor consultant to Governor Warren P. Knowles, has proposed the principle of "voluntaryism," a term he borrowed from George Taylor. "In my judgment," says Feinsinger, "a voluntary agreement not to strike is much more apt to work than a system of fines or imprisonment. This is because a no-strike agreement is the product of negotiations and not imposed from above." Feinsinger would introduce what he calls a "neutral," appointed by both sides, who would audit negotiations as a detached and dispassionate observer, making nonbinding recommendations on request...
First, the right of the growing millions of public employees to organize and bargain collectively must be recognized. Second, urgent and continuing work should be undertaken to develop bargaining procedures and machinery aimed at preventing strikes, rather than banning them and punishing strikers. While situations will differ widely from one state and city to another, some forms of fact-finding, conciliation, mediation, arbitration and injunction to work in the public sector must be devised. Third, despite all the complications involved, it must be recognized that there are differences among various kinds of public service -that some are more essential than...
Adversity sometimes rewards its victims. For seven weeks, San Francisco's two major daily newspapers were shut down by a strike. There was a good chance that the dispute would be settled this week. Meanwhile, TV had undertaken a successful rescue program that promises to become a minor trend. During the newspaper blackout, KQED's public TV channel went on the air with a nightly one-hour Newspaper of the Air. And it was just that: a "city room" peopled with staffers from the striking papers who made up their feature and news "pages" before the camera...
...nation's first statewide walkout of public schoolteachers. As nearly half of Florida's 58,000 teachers stayed away from their classrooms, about one-third of the state's 1,800 schools were closed and 500,000 children went untaught. The strike culminated an angry year-long dispute over school finances between flamboyant Governor Claude Kirk and militant members of the Florida Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association. The root of the trouble goes back to Kirk's 1966 election campaign, in which he promised to produce something of a political miracle...