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...White House further agreed to ask for an 11% increase in MSHA's 1983 budget, to $154 million-exactly its funding in the Carter Administration's last budget and enough to expand the enforcement staff from 1,700 to 1,900, nearly up to its 1978 level. Ford B. Ford, the Assistant Secretary of Labor in charge of MSHA, denies that Reagan's antiregulatory philosophy has demoralized inspectors and reduced the number and quality of inspections. "I have not sent out any signals to overlook things," he says. Yet Ford does admit to a new, looser approach...
...auto workers' concessions to Ford may be only the beginning...
Containing some so-called givebacks of past salary and benefit gains but assuring some job security during the next 31 months, the new contract between the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers raced through the union ratification process last week like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. By midweek, the agreement had been approved by the U.A.W.'s international executive board and the Ford unit council meeting in Chicago. Decisive rank-and-file endorsement is this week by the 160,000 U.A.W. members who are Ford employees, with the contract going into effect March...
...fact that only 105,000 of those members are now working explains, in part, the haste of Ford workers to embrace the first contract in their history that settles for less overall than the one it replaces. The Ford agreement was indicative of the troubles facing the 3.7 million members of the U.S. labor movement whose contracts are expiring this year...
Unemployment is expected soon to reach the highest level since 1941, the economy is mired in recession, industrial production dropped by 3% in January alone, and domestic auto sales are running at the slowest pace since the beginning of the Kennedy Administration. Two results of all those woes: Ford Motor Company announced last week that it lost a staggering $136.6 million loss during...