Word: checkoff
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...first objective was to get ready for negotiations next March, when contracts expire for most of its 225,000 operators, linemen, technicians and maintenance men. As a whopping independent union-second only to the Railway Brotherhoods-N.F.T.W. felt strong enough to shoot for the works: union shop, dues checkoff, "substantial" wage boosts...
...Freedom from war-imposed maintenance of membership (but the U.A.W. had won the dues checkoff...
Therefore, said Justice Rand, all 9,500 Ford employes would have to pay the basic union dues of $1 a month, whether they belonged or not. The company would have to collect the money by checkoff and turn it over to the union...
...union calls an illegal strike or fails to repudiate one, it will lose the checkoff for two to six months...
Company spokesmen, after hearing Lawyer Gaston's formula, quickly decided that it was nothing but a union checkoff in lamb's clothing. They emerged snorting: "Completely unacceptable . . . that man was very fresh to us." (Two days later Gaston was removed from the Stamford assignment, another casualty among labor-management alchemists...