Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor has its incentive systems, its ruby-studded 25-year pins, its bowling leagues, ad infinitum, but no pride of workmanship. My blood boils every time I drive to the auto dealer and am questioned: "What's wrong with it?" If I don't know, they don't either. I'd settle for a do-it-yourself book in the glove compartment...
...Auto-Adultery. Women can play this game too, says Rostand. Parthenogenesis -self fertilization, by techniques such as supplying an additional nucleus from the mother, would permit a woman to have a child that is not the child of any male. She would accomplish a sort of "auto-adultery...
...first time in his twelve years as president of the United Auto Workers, Walter Reuther took a licking. With auto-industry contracts due to expire this week, Reuther last week jettisoned his key demand-for profit sharing. He issued a face-saving statement that profit sharing "was never a demand, but a mechanism for giving the stockholders, consumers, workers and managers their just equities.'' This fooled no one. Behind closed doors Reuther himself had told unionists that they must cut their demands, take "a more realistic" approach to bargaining. He decided to drive for a 10? hourly wage...
Settlement? Detroit dopesters expect that the U.A.W. will settle soon for very close to what management offered originally-the extension of current contracts -plus a few face-saving fringes, such as higher and longer supplemental unemployment benefits. Auto workers would get something more than a 9? package v. the 35?-to-45? package that Reuther originally demanded. Such a settlement would be considerable, considering the slump, but less than Reuther has signed for in the past. To date, his most modest settlement was an 11? boost...
Letting his fins down, Clare Briggs, Chrysler Corp. vice president, last week issued some plain talk on what is wrong with the auto business. "Many salesmen don't know how to sell," he said, auto service is bad, and the quality of cars is "not as good as ten years ago." The auto industry, admitted Briggs, "has treated the public badly, to say it mildly...