Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song was the tipoff. As United Auto Workers negotiators left the Chrysler bargaining suite late last week and trooped into the press room, some started belting out Solidarity Forever, the old union strike song. Looking grim and tired, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock revealed the bad news. Contrary to all earlier predictions, the union was striking Chrysler Corp., the nation's third-largest auto manufacturer. This year's bargaining sessions were the "most complex" in the union's history, Woodcock said, forcing negotiators to cope not only with basic pay demands but also with such nonmoney issues...
...suddenly, unexpectedly shattered. It was the first strike called against a major industry this year, and the first potentially serious walkout since the West Coast dock workers' strike of 1971-72. For as long as the work stoppage lasts, some 125,000 employees at 68 Chrysler facilities in the U.S. and Canada will be off the job. To be sure, the impact on the economy will hardly be comparable to that caused by the crippling 67-day shutdown of General Motors in 1970, when almost three times as many workers went on strike. Still, it was a severe blow...
...choice seemed a somewhat, though not totally, reassuring sign that a crippling strike or an inflationary wage settlement will be avoided. The most obvious reason for the selection was simply that Chrysler's turn had come. General Motors was the target the last time around in 1970; Ford had been up the time before, in 1967. Chrysler also would be more financially vulnerable than either GM or Ford to a strike that left its rivals free to go on making cars...
...noneconomic" issues, such as better working conditions, rather than pressing for outsized wage boosts. Last month they staged three wildcat strikes, mostly over safety issues and other working conditions. The most important demand is that workers be allowed to refuse overtime. U.A.W. officials say that in preliminary talks, Chrysler negotiators exhibited less of a "knee-jerk reaction" against such demands than GM or Ford officials. Indeed, almost as soon as they were targeted, Chrysler officials expressed willingness to raise wages and benefits an average 6.2% each year of a new three-year pact, though they did not make a detailed...
...more immediate factor that could trouble the Chrysler talks is the position of Douglas Eraser, a scrappy 57-year-old Scotsman, one of the union's seven vice presidents and head of the Chrysler department. Eraser is a media darling-candid, brilliant and rugged-looking. He was a favorite of many to run for Senator against Michigan Republican Robert Griffin last year, but decided to stay with the U.A.W., where in 1970 he was the losing rival to Leonard Woodcock for Walter Reuther's mantle. The selection of Chrysler as strike target gives Eraser an inside track...