Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dining Hall Department cannot change the hourly pay rates, Tucker pointed out, since the union contract establishing the scale is decided by the Bureau of Personnel for the entire University. Tucker's administration must accept this rate, and consequently a new wage contract often causes a rise in board fees...
Bungled Campaign. At the start of the strike, the big steel companies, led by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, laid down a demand of their own: in return for even a modest boost in wages and fringe benefits, the union would have to agree to contract changes to "cut the cost of steelmaking." With high labor costs squeezing U.S. steel out of foreign markets (TIME, July 20), the steel companies had a solid argument for holding costs down. Revelations of corruption in the labor movement had weakened organized labor's influence. And the U.S. public was fed up with...
Despite a massive exchange of press releases and newspaper ads about the wage package, the real issue was still not wages but the work rules set up twelve years ago by Section 2-B of steel's standard wage contract. Management demanded change because the rules foster "featherbedding and loafing." The management demand solidified union ranks, raised howls that a change would let "stopwatch pirates come into the mills and set speed-up practices." Neither side made a clear case. Steel has no record of flagrant featherbedding; as compared to the same period in 1951, U.S. Steel produced...
...fair success over the past twelve years. The law's aim is to ensure production for an 80-day "cooling-off period" in strikes or threatened strikes found to imperil the "national health or safety," thereby giving management and labor a chance to resume negotiations toward a new contract. How it works...
Many workers are using their new popularity to get wages double or treble the union rate, while some employers are cutting working hours. When Volkswagen opened its new Kassel truck plant, 3,000 workers were put on a 4O-hour week v. 44 in the usual contract. Other plants offer cut-rate housing, fatter pensions, and so-called Thirteenth Salary, i.e., a month's pay at Christmas, now almost standard in Germany...