Word: checkoff
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...Windsor. With one eye on union finances, leaders of 10,000 striking Ford of Canada workers called for rank-&-file support of their new settlement proposal: a Government-appointed arbitrator to give a decision in 24 hours on the key demands for a union shop and checkoff...
...Under the checkoff system] the company has collected for the union in dues, initiation fees and special assessments a total...
...workers, in no mood to modify their demands for a closed shop and a dues checkoff, all this was a signal to prepare for a fight. Picket lines at each of the sprawling plant's 17 gates grew longer, thicker, more sullen. On Monday, 8,500 additional workers-from Windsor's Chrysler, Gar Wood, Kelsey Wheel and some 20 other smaller plants, walked out in sympathy. Pickets began erecting street barricades (hundreds of autos, bumper to jumper...
...contract omitted the closed shop and checkoff which spry old Henry Ford had granted U.A.W.-C.I.O. But the company recognized the F.A.A. as bargaining agent for its 9.000 foremen, hoped that the contract "will produce better relations between the company and the foremen...
...strike had started with the year's end. Under U.M.W.'s checkoff system of dues collection, coal companies had begun deducting 50? more for union dues than the usual $1 per month from miners' pay -the increase had been voted at the last U.M.W. convention. A majority of the anthracite miners opposed it then, vowed they would never pay it. They were outvoted by the more numerous bituminous-coal workers, traditionally loyal to Lewis. To the hard-coal workers, this meant placing additional millions from their own slim pay checks at the disposal of Absentee Landlord Lewis...