Word: duesing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the United Steelworkers' convention last September took up a resolution to raise members' dues from $3 to $5 a month-and incidentally hike President David McDonald's pay from $40,000 to $50,000-the union president twice reminded the delegates that he did not want...
By last week the dues protest (TIME, Nov. 26) had snowballed into the biggest revolt in the Steelworkers' 20-year history. Spontaneously, over 100 of the union's 2,750 locals have passed resolutions for a special convention to rescind the dues hike, among them the 20,000...
Last week, taking his first official notice of the union revolt, McDonald called in newsmen, testily told them that dues protests had reached the point where they were creating "confusion, turmoil and distrust, and promoting dual unionism." He warned the protestors that their insubordination might well lead to expulsion from...
The Byrd organization is a phenomenon among political machines. The organization and its leader, despite long tenure, are scrupulously honest; e.g., Byrd once blew up when he heard one of his lieutenants boasting about having tapped state employees for campaign contributions. "Pay every one of those people back," he snapped...
STEEL UNION REVOLT threatens United Steelworkers President David McDonald (TIME, July 9). Steelworkers have nominated rank-and-file slate to oppose top officers in union election in February. Rebels oppose monthly dues hike from $3 to $5 to fatten union's strike war chest (now at $21 million) and...