Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foremen...
...Ford Motor Co. in the confident belief it could close it drum-tight, was getting the worst thrashing in its six-year career. And it was being given by Short Laig and his C.I.O. brethren. The C.I.O.-U.A.W. workers had walked right past the picket lines of the foremen, some of whom were elderly, prosperous-looking men in decorous blue serge suits. Even their signs had a decorous, plaintive ring: "What Has Happened to Human Relations...
...Work. For seven days A.F.L. teamsters had refused to drive truckloads of parts through the foremen's lines. So the company brought them in by boxcar and the C.I.O. workers helped unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep...
...exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed us out one at a time." This week, in tougher mood, they blocked the cars of scab foremen until police cleared the gates...
Keys' union, which had grown to over 35,000 members, found itself in a precarious spot. The labor bill now pending in Congress denies foremen the protection of the Wagner Act (in effect repealing the Supreme Court decision of March 10 which put them under it). The only other club against management-a strike-had proved a slender reed. Furthermore, the union's greatest source of power, prestige and funds had been its big contract...