Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME since 1951, he has contributed to almost every section of the magazine, handled the Sport section for three years (1955-58), and helped inaugurate the Show Business section with a cover story on Jack Paar (Aug. 18, 1958). Dick Seamon demonstrates what a weekly magazine must demand of its writers: a specialist's thoroughness combined with a varied knowledgeability...
...that "America needs a settlement now," despite the danger than an aroused public might prod Congress into passing drastic antistrike legislation, Dave McDonald and the steel industry's negotiator, Conrad Cooper, broke off negotiations at midweek in another display of stubborn disregard for the public interest. McDonald airily demanded that the steel industry return to company-by-company bargaining (the big steel companies set up an industry bargaining committee in 1956), a demand that nobody took very seriously...
...loud bargaining noises, the two sides have come comfortably close to agreement on wages (the company's last offer was a 30? package increase over three years-to an average $3.40 an hour -which the union says is really 22?). But the basic issue was industry's demand for changes in the contract's twelve-year-old Section 2-B, which had deprived the steel companies of the right to change "local working conditions"-practices and customs, varying from one plant to another, governing such matters as crew sizes, the duties of particular jobs...
...first Blough & Co. demanded a contract clause saying that 2-B would not "restrict the company from improving the efficiency and economy of its operations." Last month the industry eased this demand to a proposal to submit the 2-B issue to a two-man panel (one member chosen by the industry, one by the union) with compulsory arbitration if the panel failed to reach agreement by mid-1960. McDonald refused to consider even this diluted proposal...
...subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government and the U.S. public with a demand for thoughtful answers...