Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill to repeal the law, heard testimony that by now the National Labor Relations Board had time for nothing except presiding over the strike votes required by the law, that the board could not possibly keep up with new disputes. Strike elections at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler will cost NLRB $100,000 and inestimable time, although their results are foregone conclusions. In the first two weeks of October, 3,900 other requests for strike elections were filed...
...Chrysler Corp. President Kaufman Thuma Keller was just as glum. Said Keller: Chrysler costs are up 20% since 1942, and reconversion from war production is costing $75 million for machinery and plants. Unless U.A.W.'s wage increase is passed on to the public, Keller predicted that Chrysler, too, would soon go broke. General Motors' white-thatched C. E. Wilson had the same tale...
...first ten days of October, 200 more elections were asked. It looked as if October would be a banner month for unions. Meanwhile there are strike votes ahead, already authorized. Workers at 96 General Motors plants are sure to vote an emphatic "Yes" to a strike vote next week; Chrysler employes will do the same. The bustling, powerful United Automobile Workers have already petitioned NLRB for a vote at 51 Ford plants on Nov. 7, and no one thought of anything but a big "Yes" vote there, either...
...Detroit's worst problem lay ahead. Last week the National Labor Relations Board set strike votes for Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 for 325,000 General Motors employes and 120,000 workers in Chrysler plants. Next, a similar voting date would be set for the 200,000 employes of the Ford Co. The union strategy, if its demands are not met: to strike one company at a time, let the others stay in operation, thus knock off the 'opposition one at a time...
...Detroit, where the battle lines were being drawn, the number of idle workers went up to more than 86,000 when a Chrysler Corp. Dodge truck plant shut down, laying off 2,200; 800 others for whom there was work found pickets on duty when they arrived at the plant. The 800 did not work. Neither did 50,000 workers shut out of Ford plants because of a continuing strike-which defied even U.A.W. settlement efforts-at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel...