Word: hodgson
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Although Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson claimed the move was not anti-union, it is expected to shift a large amount of Federal construction to low-er-paid non-union workers. Federal and federally assisted projects worth about $25 billion are affected...
...Labor Department spokesman said that Dunlop also met Monday with Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson and that the two men "explored all the possibilities," including a freeze on wages and prices, in talks on spiralling building costs. Their recommendations were not expected to reach the President before midweek, the spokesman said...
...Needs Hollywood? The Government's reduction in war spending accounted for much of the new unemployment. Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson points out that at least one-third of the rise in joblessness during the past 18 months came from defense cutbacks: net reductions of 500,000 servicemen, 130,000 Defense Department civilian employees and 1,500,000 defense workers. Stubborn pockets of high unemployment in Seattle (10.9%), Wichita, Kans. (9.3%), and Bridgeport, Conn. (7.1%) bear witness to the disrupted careers of Americans who once got high pay in high-technology industries. Some have moved to Europe or Mexico...
Other forecasters feel that the concern about wage raises is overdone. Labor Secretary James Hodgson points out that total pay received by non-Government workers recently has been rising only 7.2% a year, and major union contracts negotiated this year cover only a small minority of the U.S. labor force. Economists are also cheered by renewed growth in workers' output per man-hour, which tends to restrain the costs of production. After almost two years of little or no gain, productivity rose in the second quarter at an annual rate estimated by McCracken...
...nation. Six other commission members will represent the public, and another six will be men from business, including leaders of other industries facing key labor bargaining this year. The chairmanship will rotate among the five Government members: Treasury Secretary David Kennedy, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, Labor Secretary James Hodgson, Chief Presidential Economist Paul McCracken and George Shultz, the White House's management and budget chief. With a line-up like that, the commission could be able to exercise considerable clout...