Word: careys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief reasons why the union was split on the strike were the aggressive labor policy pursued by G.E. and the headstrong, overdetermined tactics of I.U.E. President James Carey. The last time G.E. faced a strike of comparable proportions-in 1946-it closed down its plants, but since then it has hardened its policies. Under Vice President Lemuel R. Boulware, who now serves only as a consultant, G.E. developed a broad policy known through the industry as "Boulwarism," in which the company makes an unceasing effort to sell itself to the workers. In bargaining, the company first listens to the unions...
...going to stand by them." Although G.E. was disturbed by the violence and was seeking injunctions to bar mass picketing, it refused to close its plants. Says Moore: "We believe a man has a right to strike, but we also believe he has a right to work. Carey has his troubles. A lot of his people aren't behind him. When they realize they've been had, they'll start coming back to work...
Bargaining between James Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, and General Electric on a new contract was-as usual-stormy and tough. Once the ten-man G.E. team stomped out after Carey cussed out Chief G.E. Negotiator Philip D. Moore. Last week Carey's demands for more than G.E. was willing to offer had got himself and his union into a strike neither really wanted. Snapped G.E.'s Moore to Carey at one of the last sessions: "You think there is something else coming. Well, there isn't now, next week, next month...
...strike deadline neared, Carey offered to extend the deadline-and con tract-but G.E. refused to extend the contract. At week's end representatives of all I.U.E. locals (which represent 70,000 of G.E.'s 240,000 employees) met in Manhattan, voted to strike. G.E. announced it would keep its plants open for all employees who wanted to work...
...recent years, increased productivity has been accompanied by regular wage hikes (see chart). Such unions as Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and James B. Carey's International Union of Electrical Workers now argue that earnings should rise at the same rate as productivity. But productivity jumps, insists management, not only reflect increased output per worker but increased capital investment and automation. Productivity also has an effect on prices and inflation. An increase in output per man-hour not only makes more goods available; it makes possible either lower prices or higher profits-or some of both...