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...raises are another matter. Just before the strike deadline, Firestone increased its wage offer by a dime, to a $1.15 hourly raise over three years, and offered a COLA that would be activated if the Consumer Price Index rose more than seven percentage points in any one year. Peter Bommarito, 60, the U.R.W.'s tireless, white-moustached president, called the offer "insulting...
...union is demanding parity with auto workers' wages in addition to a "meaningful" further wage increase, a COLA clause and improvements in pension and insurance plans. Some tiremakers, however, suffered from falling profits in 1975 and will find it hard to agree to the U.R.W. package. President Peter Bommarito may lose control of his union if the new contract is found wanting by the membership. The only deterrent to a long strike is the paltry $5.5 million balance in the union's strike fund; the money could run out in as little as a month...
That philosophy will soon get its first major test. On April 20, contracts expire between the United Rubber Workers and Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and Uniroyal. U.R.W. President Peter Bommarito is demanding pay and fringe hikes averaging more than 8% annually over the next three years. Among other things, the 87,000 rubber workers want the right to retire on full pensions after 25 years of service, regardless of age, and payments to workers left jobless when plants relocate...
...standard, which Nixon must have known was coming, obviously risks giving a new spin to the destructive wage-price spiral. United Rubber Workers President Peter Bommarito, who will be negotiating several important contracts later this year, told colleagues in Florida that he plans to shoot for a 10% pay raise in the first year of each new pact. An implied tie between wage increases and the cost of living would almost surely prompt union negotiators to press for extra-high wage boosts, since the Government's consumer price index has lately taken some big jumps. In January it rose...
...Lbuis, after he used a brace and bit to drill holes in 24 doors in three apartment houses, Joseph Bommarito was given three suspended 60-day workhouse sentences despite his explanation: "I was driving along and I saw a beautiful girl. I just had to see her again...