Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most big strikes in the U.S. since World War II, the fight was about the difference in size between the package management offered and the package the union demanded. But this time the steel industry brought to the bargaining table not an offer, but some demands of its own: contract changes to give management more control over conditions in the mills. Most important change demanded by industry: revision of the standard contract's Section 2-B, which deals with the work rules-varying from one mill to another-that govern such matters as the number of men needed...
...around to making the union a money offer to chew on. But it was a small offer, totaling about 8? an hour in added benefits as against McDonald's demand for a 15? package. And at the same time the steel industry stuck determinedly to its insistence on contract changes, including revision...
There have been no steel negotiations since Tuesday night when top leaders in the industry and the United Steel Workers of America threw up their hands in despair of reaching a new contract agreement...
Dunlop, however, thinks a settlement without a price rise is "unlikely," but minimized its inflationary effect since all the other outstanding contract negotiations this year have already been decided. "Steel will follow, not set the pace," he suggested...
Preference for these rooms, which rent for $215 per term, is given to local students who, especially as juniors and seniors, want to live at the College. Not required to sign a board contract, as all other residents must, students in Wigglesworth J are responsible for their own meals, although "it is hoped, but not required," that they will take their luncheons in the Dudley dining hall, paying by Bursar's coupon...