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...model of its kind, with neat houses, abundantly stocked supermarkets, modern schools, a fully equipped hospital. I.P.C. paid some of the highest wages in Peru-about 40% higher than the Lima average-and provided fat fringe and pension benefits for its workers. Employee turnover was almost nonexistent; the average blue-collar worker at Talara has been with the company 20 years. Under government prodding, I.P.C. held gasoline prices in Peru to a cut-rate...
Better than 90% of the nation's blue-collar workers enjoy company-supported health and welfare plans. Besides paying for unemployment insurance and chipping in their share of social security, hundreds of companies now pay up to half of employee life-insurance and medical-plan costs. Also common are a host of fringes that were considered visionary or radical only a dozen years ago: regular three-week vacations, eight or more paid holidays a year, severance pay, company-financed college courses, moving allowances for transferred employees, and layoff benefits that bring payments up to 80% of base wages. Even...
Moreover, as one result of automation-the world's biggest bogy word to most union leaders-the so-called white-collar workers have for the first time passed in number the lunch pail-carrying blue-collar men, who are the backbone of unionism (see chart). Since white-collar workers historically identify themselves with management, they are hard to organize-and the unions have made only the smallest dent in their ranks...
Much of the current labor unrest traces to the unions' frustration, and their desire to protect blue-collar jobs threatened by automation. On the docks, where loading machines have steadily been replacing men, a main cause of the current strike was management's attempt to slim down work crews. (The issue has been shunted to an outside study group, which will report next year...
...association." Carr was alluding to Big Labor money, which now has entered the fray. A half-million dollars from the Auto Workers and other unions went into the organization campaign among the New York teachers, he claimed, arguing that labor is now trying to make up for declining blue-collar membership by taking in white-collar teachers, who otherwise might stick with the "professional" N.E.A. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President James B. Carey was shouted down by the delegates in Denver before he could reach a key retort in his speech to the convention: "Teachers are welcoming unionism as a wave...