Word: horvitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yant's dusting, however, began rattling a few too many skeletons, and even some of his supporters thought he was becoming overzealous. On the same day that the News-Journal printed a reader's congratulatory letter to Yant, Publisher Harry Horvitz fired him. Said Horvitz-"I questioned his responsibility...
...publicly hinted that the Government would act against any company that signed a guidelines-busting agreement, perhaps by withdrawing federal procurement contracts. Representatives from Goodyear, Firestone, BF Goodrich and Uniroyal met with Carter's advisers, but Bommarito declined, although he said he would get together with Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz and officials of Uniroyal this week. In any case, Bommarito warned, if the tiremakers try to settle for less than the union had announced, he was prepared to call a strike. Likely targets: Goodyear or Uniroyal...
...sides, said Chief Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, "came awfully close." Only 24 hours before the strike deadline, negotiators agreed to increase the industry's compensation costs during the three-year contract by just over 30%. That would be substantially above the figure of 7% a year (22.5% when compounded over three years) recommended under Jimmy Carter's program of "voluntary" guidelines. By excluding some wage and benefit gains, however, the Council on Wage and Price Stability had been expected to proclaim that the 30% pact was close to the guidelines...
With so much at stake, the White House has been using all its muscle to hold the agreement within the guidelines. Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who helped arrange settlements in the postal and oil workers' negotiations, is sitting in on the bargaining and trying to nudge the two sides together. The Administration is implicitly threatening the industry against caving in to union demands. The Interstate Commerce Commission has informally told the companies that they will not be allowed to pass through-as higher rates-any raises of more than 7%. Until now, the ICC has merely rubber-stamped...
Much depends on the skill of Mediator Healy, 62, who has been settling labor disputes, especially in the railroad and maritime industries, since 1945. "He is one of the two or three best in the country for this kind of work," says Horvitz. Under the unusual bargaining agreement, Healy has considerable room for maneuver. Both sides will have to be wary of rejecting proposals for fear that the final binding arbitration might be worse...