Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week, however, negotiators began moving to the biggest test of whether this serenity can endure. Beaming in front of a brocade curtain in a Milwaukee hotel, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock announced the union's choice of a strike target when contracts expire Sept. 14:Chrysler...
...hottest issue is the union's demand that employees be permitted to refuse overtime work. Workers complain that long hours hurt their health and home life. Managements contend that mandatory overtime is necessary to keep assembly lines moving smoothly. The union's reply: G.M., Ford and Chrysler operate profitably in Canada and Europe, where involuntary overtime is forbidden...
...battle isn't over (and probably never will be). In the current issue of Solidarity, the UAW's paper, a group of Ford, G.M. and Chrysler workers call for an end to compulsory overtime, one of their major gripes now against the Big Three auto companies. "The foremen are just lazy," complains the President of one Ford local. "They could get all the people they need to work overtime voluntarily, just by asking more people. It's easier for them to point to workers, like they do now, and say, 'You gotta work, or else...
...small cars selling in this country are made in the U.S., up from only four out of ten in 1969. Demand is so heavy that some would-be buyers have to wait. Dealers report that GM Vegas, American Motors Gremlins and Ford Pintos are in uncomfortably short supply. Chrysler's Duster, a somewhat larger compact, is also moving fast...
...Chrysler Imperial (440-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 9.2 m.p.g...