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The executive council for USAir's pilot union is expected to meet today in Reston, Va., to consider an agreement that would cut pilots' pay by 20 percent and allow the carrier to furlough up to 300 pilots.The union's leaders were scheduled to meet yesterday to review the agreement, but the meeting was postponed to give the two sides time to work out the details of the proposal, a union official said.The agreement reached Saturday between the company and the union provides for $190 million annually in concessions, including a 20 percent pay cut that would save the company $150 million a year for the next five years.

The union representing Annapolis police yesterday unanimously rejected the latest contract offer from city officials but postponed a no-confidence vote on Mayor Alfred A. Hopkins.Police Sgt. John Mellon, chief union shop steward for Local 400 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, said the no-confidence vote "will be deferred to a later date."The 50 assembled union members approved, 44-6, a no-confidence vote against Police Chief Harold Robbins."The guys cited lack of leadership and a lack of support," Sergeant Mellon said.

Correctional officers at the Eastern Correctional Institution have handed Warden Earl D. Beshears a vote of no confidence because of problems that they say have turned the prison near Salisbury into a "powder keg waiting to blow."Carl McVeigh, staff representative of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 92, said the unanimous no-confidence vote was taken at a union meeting Thursday night in Salisbury.About 100 of the union's 250 ECI correctional officers represented by the union were at the meeting and voted, he said.

A new union representing sergeants in the two Anne Arundel detention centers has ratified its first labor agreement with the county government. In a 17-1 vote this week, the Detention Sergeants Association, International Union of Police Associations Local 141, agreed to the three-year pact, covering details from payroll deduction of union dues to a $750 cleaning allowance for uniforms. With the contract, the sergeants approved an average 3.5 percent increase in pay and a benefits package.

Complaining that Baltimore's police chief is out of touch, the police officers union released a survey yesterday concluding that morale is poor and calling for the chief to be fired if conditions don't improve.Fraternal Order of Police leaders said officers feel they get no support from city leaders. And nearly half of those surveyed said they have considered leaving the department because of Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier's policies, the leaders said."It's going to be harder and harder to motivate people to go out there and do their jobs if they feel nobody is supporting them.

NEWARK, N.J. -- The success of the Teamsters' strike at United Parcel Service has prompted union leaders, columnists, journalists and academics to predict a resurgence of unionism.Will it happen? In a word, no.On the contrary, more erosion in the share of private-sector jobs that are unionized can be expected. Global competition and structural changes in labor markets, the forces that have brought organized labor to its current low ebb, will not only continue, but grow.Unionization in the American private-sector work force has declined from its 1953 peak of 36 percent of the jobs to 10 percent today.

The Communications Workers of America says it has been blocked from unionizing classified workers at Baltimore County's three community colleges and warn the action could mean the loss of up to 300 students.Ron Collins, vice president of the CWA, said the colleges' board of trustees and the system's new chancellor have refused to recognize the membership that Collins says has been generated among the 425 workers in campus jobs such as computer programming, payroll and other administrative duties.

IN A symbolic protest, union leaders at the Woodlawn-based Social Security Administration are refusing to sign a four-year labor agreement that went into effect this week and deeply divided its membership. In an Aug. 10 letter to SSA Commissioner Jo Anne Barnhart, John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said that his signature was unnecessary and that, in light of "unpleasant" and "counterproductive" negotiations, he was declining to provide it. "They usually have a little signing ceremony and party afterward with coffee and cookies," said Debbie Frederickson, a union leader for the agency's more than 1,000 field offices.

In the words of one incensed teachers' union president, "It's war."County teachers and other school employees are not alone in facinga fight over pay raises this year. Teachers and school employees in four other counties in the Baltimore area also are faced with losing pay raises because of county financial distress.Some are fighting back.* In Howard County, where teachers arein the second year of a negotiated contract, County Executive Charles I. Ecker has announced he intends to cut $8 million from the education budget, eliminating teachers' raises, said Jim Swab, president ofthe Howard teachers' union.

Major League Baseball Players Association chief Donald Fehr never has been afraid to say no to baseball ownership. He is the stubborn union leader who blocked baseball's attempt to put a cap on salaries, and he has emerged as the most powerful voice in the debate over realignment.The San Francisco Giants can cry all they want about the negative effects of the radical realignment plan that would put them in the same league with the Oakland A's, but Giants owner Peter McGowan does not have the power to stop it. Fehr can tell the owners tomorrow that it isn't going to happen and it isn't.