Word: armour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other unions did not wait for steel to set a wage pattern, pushed in for the best deals they could make.¶ One hour before the expiration of a three-year contract, the United Packinghouse Workers and the Amalgamated Meatcutters got Armour's signature to a two-year contract raising wages 8½?an hour the first year, another 6½?the second. Fringe benefits brought the package to 22? over the life of the contract, ranged from three-week vacations after twelve years (v. 15) to establishment of a $500,000 fund through company contributions to help retrain...
...passage of the nation's pure food laws. Sinclair was so revolted by the packing industry that he wound up the book with a prophecy that some day Chicago's great packing industry would wither away. Last week economics was doing what reformers had failed to accomplish. Armour & Co. announced that it will end its packing operations at Chicago this summer; a month ago Swift decided to do the same thing. The other Big Three packer, Wilson, shut down in 1955. With the major packers gone, Chicago will become just another regional livestock market, with small packers slaughtering...
...inspection of the Armour slaughterhouses took place with such rapidity that we could use our notebooks only back in the office. Here, in the presence of the two trade union workers, who returned our cameras and took our white robes, the conversation continued...
...varies. There are 24 different categories in the Armour slaughterhouses...
...that way not only at Armour. It's the same in other companies" said the other worker, a man getting on in years who had previously said nothing...