Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fords every eight-hour working day. For several months, Reuther said, Ford had been speeding up the assembly line without consulting the union or adding more workers. Reuther called this "an unsolved grievance." Ford denied the union's charges, suggested arbitration as provided by the contract. Reuther countered that the arbitrator would have to be "part doctor, engineer and astrologer...
...Reuther's heart was clearly not in his work. With new contract negotiations coming up within a week, he would have preferred to save the strike weapon to push through the union's 1949 demands for wage increases, pensions, and a health program. His hand had been forced by the tough, Communist-led faction in U.A.W.'s huge, 59,000-member Rouge Local 600, which had snowballed the speed-up into a major issue of union politics...
Beyond his showman's skills, Milton gets into all the offstage acts too. Though his contract gives him the right to assist in putting the show on, he runs the whole business. He has a master grasp of the TV medium still rare among lesser practitioners who are hamstrung by radio techniques. He calls the show's camera shots, directs the acts, plans the continuity, bosses the booking, writing, lighting and costumes, dictates the musical arrangements (and frequently hands them out to the musicians), approves the scenery (and sometimes helps shift it) and, in rehearsal, often leads...
...puts in two more days personally answer ing his fan mail (he sends every fan a card cartoon, often adds a note), and taking care of the business side of the highly profitable Blondie enterprises. Unlike many cartoonists, Young owns all the rights to Blondie, and looks over every contract. Says Chic: "Being a cartoonist these days is getting to mean you don't have time to draw...
...about it. Last week Mooney moved out as president, but stayed on as chairman. Canaday began shopping for another president. A likely candidate: ex-President Charles E. Sorensen, whom Canaday had kicked upstairs to vice chairman when Mooney came in three years ago. Thanks to an airtight contract from Canaday, Sorensen draws $1,000 a week for the next five years whether he does anything...