Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, on deadline night, Ford Motor Co. officials waited more than six hours for the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers to make up its mind about what kind of a contract it wanted at Ford. The union had the choice of a straight 11½? increase plus six paid holidays or a 7?-an-hour pay boost along with a pension plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Ford had the U.A.W. over a barrel; if it failed to sign by midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop or go to the NLRB for an election...
...City, the day before deadline, the C.I.O.'s Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers got a union-shop agreement from the Radio Corporation of America's RCA Victor Division. In Cleveland, the big, strong International Typographical Union's convention adopted a policy of not signing any future contracts, thus skirting the Act's closed-shop ban (see PRESS). Across the country many minor strikes and disputes were settled close to the deadline; in some cases, clocks were stopped at 11:59 P-m., while negotiations went on. In New York City a longshoremen's contract...
...congressional investigation of "any and all efforts to by-pass the law, whether by unions working alone or in conspiracy with employers." Employers perked up their ears and wondered what sort of merry-go-round they were on now. Many, for the sake of labor peace, had taken their contract cue from Co-Author Bob Taft. He had found "no illegality" in the coal operators' deal with John L. Lewis which bypassed some of the law's provisions...
Last week, "Babe" Zaharias turned professional for keeps.† She announced that she had accepted a Hollywood contract to make ten movie shorts on golf for $300,000. The once boyish Babe, now 34 and given to silly hats and nail polish, made it clear that the decision was not entirely her own: "George and I talked it over for a long while and he finally said O.K." George is her 300-lb. husband, known in his wrestling days as the Weeping Greek from Cripple Creek, one of the few men who can sometimes better her average (240 yards...
...swallowed-but did not say so-by the affluent and conservative Seattle Times, which would now have the afternoon field all to itself. For the Times (circ. 176,000), the deal was a bargain: at the markdown price of $360,000 it got the Star's precious newsprint contract. It also nipped young David T. Stern's threat to buy the paper and restore the lusty liberal voice that its late founder, E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, gave...