Horvitz played an active role in negotiating a new master freight agreement between the trucking industry and the Teamsters, ending a 10-day strike and lockout that had 300,000 drivers and other union employees out of work. As part of the agreement reached in April 1979, workers received an additional $1.50 per hour, with wages and benefits rising 30% in the three years of the contract. Horvitz served as mediator from the start of negotiations and praised both sides for resisting internal and external pressures to prolong the work stoppage.Shabecoff, Philip. "Truck Industry And Teamsters Agree on a Pact; 30% Rise Over 3 Years", The New York Times, April 11, 1979. Accessed June 22, 2009. Later that year, Horvitz also played a direct role in "very difficult and complicated" negotiations towards reaching an agreement to end a 12-week-long strike by grain handlers the 600 workers represented by Local 118 of the American Federation of Grain Millers that brought an estimated $1 billion in losses to the farmer industry in the Upper Midwest.via United Press International. "Final Tentative Accord Is Reached In Midwest Grain Handlers 'Strike; Nonstop Bargaining Session", The New York Times, September 24, 1979. Accessed June 22, 2009.
