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There are other indications that the wage battle is heating up. In Washington, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters told representatives of the trucking industry that it wants a 500 -or 8%-hourly increase for each of the next three years of a new contract. The union is also asking for removal of the current ceiling on cost of living increases, a demand that the industry's chief negotiator, C.G. Zwingle, denounced as "shocking." Nobody expects the Teamsters to get more than a 400-an-hour raise, but even that would exceed the Phase III guidelines and encourage other unions...
...signed to contracts three years ago. Now Chavez's still tiny United Farm Workers Union (28,000 members at the end of 1972) is locked in a struggle with another union that happens to be one of the most powerful in the non-Communist world, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
...largest metropolitan food chain, has refused to stop selling lettuce grown under International Brotherhood of Teamsters contracts, which the UFW claims are "sweetheart" pacts...
...unite us," President Nixon once again denounced those who had pressed for an earlier peace, insisting that they had been a "small but vocal minority" who had leveled an "unprecedented barrage of criticism" and had been willing to "humiliate" their country. If that was the bugle call to brotherhood, it sounded a rather sour note. Perhaps Henry Kissinger and, say, Daniel Ellsberg should negotiate an intranational ceasefire...
...supplements its sale of UFW lettuce with lettuce picked by members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters controls field labor for 70 per cent of lettuce picked in the U.S., while the UFW controls 15 per cent...