Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recognition as a sole bargaining agent for workers. The GM sit-down strike broke this barrier, which business swore would never fall. The flood tide brought non-union workers to the doors of every CIO affiliate no matter what local. Mortimer found himself negotiating for strikers from power to aircraft industries under the auspices of the UAW because, as he put it, "it was the only CIO union thereabouts...
...catch the President's ear. He was forced on more than one occassion to order strikers back to work when FDR or business interests so pressured. In just such a conflict Mortimer was finally removed from leadership in the UAW because he sided with the strikers in the aircraft union he organized...
...elsewhere, are made in the U.S." In response to such criticism, some U.S. companies have recruited more Canadian directors for their subsidiaries and have given Canadian managers top jobs. But U.S.-based chiefs of many companies still seem to see Canada only as an extension of the U.S. Douglas Aircraft last year refused its Canadian workers a wage increase, contending that it was bound by President Nixon's U.S. wage freeze...
...research anyway for the civilian market but that it conveniently found military funds to finance the research. For example, ADL currently holds a contract with the Navy Air Systems Command to test the effects of corrosion on metals. This study is as indispensable for the Navy's furture aircraft as another company's production of guns, but Bunting--in true liberal fashion--cannot see the connection...
Finally, after three years of frustrating negotiations, Iowa Governor Robert Ray cut through the red tape by devising a neat bureaucratic stroke of his own. In his capacity as commander in chief of the Iowa National Guard, Ray ordered all of its 95 aircraft and 1,625 motor vehicles indefinitely immobilized except in the event of a national emergency. "I am not satisfied," he said, "that what has happened to the Tjernagels and the McCarvilles could not happen to other lowans...