Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third week, the seven-union walkout led by the Newspaper Guild against the morning Advertiser and afternoon Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's only two island-wide dailies, has become a contest of wills between hardheaded Financier Chinn Ho, who dominates both papers, and Jack Hall, the tough boss of militant unionism in the islands. At first the unions wanted an across-the-board pay raise of $10 a week. The publishers offered a sliding scale downward from $3.50. The gap narrowed to the point where there was only $2.75 separating their positions. But negotiations broke down, and the strike...
...International Typographical Union has vowed only to force gradual rather than radical change, and to slow down the job-robbing effects of automation. Stereotypers have started signing contracts covering jobs on automated plate casters. In Toronto, newspaper owners have written a clause into their new contract with the Newspaper Guild providing for the retraining of employees automated out of a job. And when it meets in Philadelphia for its convention next week, the Guild plans to use the Toronto contract as one way to live with automation...
Even after the Guild settled, it took six weeks more of dreary bargaining to draw up contracts with the eight remaining newspaper unions. Last to sign were the striking printers and machinists, who at week's end ratified contracts similar to those won by the others and averaging $10 pay increases over two years. Total cost to the papers' 3,000 employees: $6,000,000 in lost wages...
Cleveland's strike began with a surprise November walkout by delivery truck drivers demanding higher wages. They were followed next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...
...What the Guild wanted was an "agency shop" in which commercial employees who did not join the Guild would be required to ante up a "service fee" equivalent to regular dues. The Guild's chief opponent was blunt, outspoken Editor Louis Seltzer of Scripps-Howard's Press. "The people who do the creative and objective work on our papers." said he, "should not be required to be members of outside organizations-religious, capital or labor-or subject to their dictates." By the time the Guild finally approved its new contract in February, Seltzer had won his point. Commercial...