Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there has been some lethargy on the organizing front, perhaps the prior need to fight on the contract front in part accounts...
...strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly to its hands-off policy. When President Eisenhower later renewed his earlier plea for an indefinite extension of bargaining, Dave McDonald wearily turned it down, announced that the union would strike this week if it did not win a new contract...
...this week is not that 51% of those polled said that steelworkers should get no pay raise, but that 40% of the families of union members felt the same way. For all these reasons, it was clear that Dave McDonald would walk away this year-after either a contract or a strike-with far less than the "even greater agreement" than 1956, which he promised his workers at the start of the bargaining...
...violent, bloody strikes. Labor did not succeed in organizing the industry until 1937, when the door was opened by U.S. Steel. President Roosevelt persuaded the late Myron C. Taylor, then Big Steel's board chairman (and later Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican) to make a contract with the United Steelworkers, the first in the industry...
...objective is to conclude a contract that will involve no increase in the overall employment costs of the company," said Republic Steel's tough, plain-talking President Thomas Patton on TV's Meet the Press. Not only does the current contract provide high wages and benefits, contended Patton, but it also leaves plenty of room for further wage boosts through job promotions and incentive pay. Patton's proof: since contract negotiations opened just two months ago, average hourly wages have jumped from...