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A municipal workers€™ union that represents sanitation workers in many small Midwestern cities studied the contracts that were signed in the previous years. The contracts were subdivided into those settled by negotiation without a strike, those settled by arbitration without a strike, and those settled after a strike. For each contract, the first-year percentage wage increase was determined. Summary figures follow.

Does there appear to be a relationship between contract type and mean percentage wage increase? If you were management rather than union affiliated, which posture would you take in future contract negotiations?

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