Word: abels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high wages and high unemployment, American workers generally worry far less about the size of their paychecks than about whether those checks will keep coming. Responding to that anxiety, union leaders are putting job security high on their bargaining agenda-and last week I.W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers, decided to go all the way. At Washington's Shoreham Americana Hotel, he opened his last round of contract talks in basic steel (he is 68 and will retire in June). As militant Steelworkers, fearful of a sellout to the industry, picketed outside, Abel announced that the union...
...ideas." About the only thing that is certain is the demand will not lead to a strike when contracts covering 337,600 workers at the Big Ten steel companies expire July 31. The talks will be conducted under the Experimental Negotiating Agreement, an earlier and no less interesting Abel-sponsored innovation. It provides that if there is no agreement by April 20, the dispute will be submitted to binding arbitration...
...campaign was one of the most vituperative ever seen in a union election, and it continued that way to the end. On the weekend before the polling, retiring President I.W. Abel, who had hand-picked McBride as his heir, flew to Chicago to attack Sadlowski on his home turf. "I've known Ed Sadlowski for twelve years," sneered the white-haired Abel, "and I know his lack of ability, his lack of dedication." McBride repeated his charge that "outsiders and limousine liberals" were his opponent's main backers. Sadlowski, for his part, called Abel, McBride and Meany "well...
...fateful." The Briton had reached cautious accord with leaders of the five black "frontline" countries surrounding Rhodesia-Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. He had also talked with four black nationalist leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of the hard-line Patriotic Front, and the more moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Only Smith, said Richard, had balked completely. "Smith wants to settle on his own terms. That's not settlement by negotiation. That's settlement by ultimatum...
...Abel-McBride forces charge Sadlowski with radicalism. McBride is careful not to call Sadlowski a Communist. "I don't really know whether he is or isn't a Communist," McBride said at a Pittsburgh rally last week. "But I do know he's in bed with left-wingers...