Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the younger workers were looking forward to a maximum 40-or-45 hour week agreement. But Chrysler employees may still be forced to work 54 hours a week, and with those kinds of hours there's not much chance that the men and women who work on the line will have an opportunity to do anything but sleep off their nine-hour days...
Voluntary overtime, although not a new idea in the auto industry, was the stickiest issue of the UAW-Chrysler negotiations. In response to the UAW's high-priority demand that all overtime be voluntary, Chrysler argued that non-compulsory overtime would create administrative and began headaches and be costly in terms of checks, lost production...
Most of the men and women who have manned the assembly lines at Chrysler plants for 15 or 20 years are not unhappy about the contract's meager limits on mandatory overtime. Many of them say that the long working hours have become part of daily life. After thirty years of the same day-to-day tedium, they said they hoped mainly to retired with full pensions, regardless...
...Chrysler contract includes a full "30 and out" clause: A worker may retire after 30 years with the company at any age and he will receive full pensions benefits. Although the union was asking for an increase in pensions to $650 a month, the contract sets benefits at $550. But it insures that retired workers will continue to collect that full sum even after they begin receiving social security benefits. By 1978, the average 65-year-old retired worker's monthly benefits will thus total about...
...medical area, the UAW convinced the Chrysler company to pick up the tab for the workers' share of national health insurance preminums, should such a program be established. (Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 has introduced a bill for national health insurance into Congress, but it remains in committee at this time...