Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that stern admonition, Ike affirmed his faith in free collective bargaining by asking labor and management to negotiate "around-the-clock" to avert a new steel crisis when the strike-halting Taft-Hartley injunction expires Jan. 26. "What great news it would be if, during the course of this journey, I should receive word of a settlement of this steel controversy that is fair to the workers, fair to management and, above all, fair to the American people," said he. But the steelworkers and steel companies, deeply entrenched and unshakably stubborn after a 116-day siege...
Instead, United Steelworkers' President Dave McDonald asked that Ike abandon his objection to direct Government intervention, proposed that the President instruct his Taft-Hartley Board of Inquiry to recommend a strike settlement. If the Government would take that unprecedented step (not provided for under Taft-Hartley), McDonald pledged vaguely, the steelworkers would bargain "within the framework of the board's recommendations." U.S. Steel Corp.'s R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for eleven major steel companies, promptly blasted McDonald's suggestion as "just one more attempt" by union leaders "to avoid their own great responsibilities by seeking...
Despite President Eisenhower's call for a swift steel peace (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), management and labor could agree last week only to continue disagreeing. Just before both sides met with federal mediators for the first time since a Taft-Hartley injunction sent the workers back to the plants, the steel industry announced that its earlier offer of 30?-an-hour package spread over three years was its "last offer for a strike settlement." This so incensed Steelworkers President David McDonald that he walked into the meeting heatedly waving a copy of the statement. He repeated union arguments that...
...coming back fast from the steel shortage. As representatives of the steel industry and the steelworkers got ready to meet in Washington with federal mediators, the steelworkers warned the Government to stockpile steel lest there be a shortage for defense purposes if the strike is resumed when the Taft-Hartley injunction period ends Jan. 26. But the Government refused...
...Warning. Formal mediation meetings will be resumed after Thanksgiving, but unionists feel that the companies' offer is not likely to be materially raised. If not accepted by the union leadership, the Taft-Hartley law requires submitting management's final offer to a secret-ballot membership vote between Jan. 5 and Jan. 26. After that, the union leadership could still order the men out on strike again, whether the vote was favorable...