Word: checkoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wages were not an issue this time. With both congressional labor bills dead-aimed at their right to bargain under the Wagner act, they were scrambling against time for a contract which would give them a dues checkoff, a liberalized retirement plan, the right to speak for non-union foremen as well as F.A.A. members. Ford officials conceded that the strikers might be able to cripple production within a week...
...Require unions to file financial reports; require a worker's written consent to having his union dues deducted by "checkoff" from his wages...
Last week, after 14 months, the strikers' families were hungry enough. They accepted the 25?-an-hour wage increase offered by the company five months ago, abandoned the fight to get a closed shop, compulsory checkoff, or maintenance of membership...
Though less specific on the wage question, the Steelworkers wanted plenty, e.g.: "substantial" wage increases; union shop with checkoff; a guaranteed annual wage; portal-to-portal pay; a social insurance plan to be paid for by the industry; paid holidays. But the demands were only a basis for horse trading. Big Steel was believed willing to give wage hikes of 10? to 15? an hour. In his present mood, Phil Murray, who struck for four weeks last year and got 18?, would settle for that...
...they limited production. They answered with a flood of suggestions for increasing production by eliminating inefficiencies. Said Buchsbaum: "I could see how I could save thousands of dollars. . . . They had my interests at heart - as well as their own." In a flush of enthusiasm he granted the union the checkoff, a 5?-an-hour wage increase, and the right to examine the company's books...