Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter Reuther's U.A.W. finally succeeded in winning from Kohler Co. a skimpy one-year contract. Basis of U.A.W.'s claim to jurisdiction over the workers of a bathroom-fixture company: U.A.W. had a contract with the Briggs Manufacturing Co., which made both auto parts and the kinds of fixtures that Kohler makes...
After the one-year Kohler contract ran out, the union demanded a broadened agreement, including a seniority rule in layoffs, dues checkoff, binding arbitration of differences. U.A.W. also called for a wage increase, but that was not a basic issue: pay scales at Kohler were about in line with the rest of the plumbing-fixture industry...
Herbert Kohler shows no sign of surrendering. Last week U.A.W. publicly renewed its standing offer to accept "binding arbitration," and a Kohler spokesman promptly turned the offer down on the ground that the terms of a contract cannot be reached by arbitration...
They were so cozy that they grew soft about enforcing their agreements. Management protested that Old Warhorse Dubinsky had signed substandard contracts, with nonunion shops out of New York to organize them, thus made it tough for Manhattan manufacturers to compete. Dubinsky hotly denied it. His union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract...
Mayor Wagner named two mediators who are highly regarded by both sides: former Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman and Harry Uviller, impartial chairman of the dress industry. After their appointment, agreement was promptly reached this week on wages (a package increase of about 12%), leaving only the last details of contract enforcement to be worked out. Said Management Spokesman Nat Boriskin "We in the garment industry are one big happy family. Myself, I'm a happily married man, but even my wife and I have a few words every now and then...