Christian Science Monitor: At the table, public unions do better
New York transit workers went on strike for three days and managed to save the right to retire at 55 with half pay, plus they got wage increases totaling almost 12 percent over three years.
Northwest Airlines’s mechanics have been on strike since this past August. If they approve the current settlement on December 30th, the best they can hope for is four weeks of layoff pay and a pink slip.
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