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...strikes, the U.S. copper industry is now going through one that is undoubtedly the most costly ever. For more than five months, 60,000 copper workers have been idled by a strike of 26 unions, led by the United Steelworkers. All of the industry's Big Four-Kenhecott, Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Phelps Dodge-are affected. The unions demand hourly wage increases totaling 990 by their calculation and industry-wide bargaining; the companies have offered about 500 and have insisted on maintaining the same plant-by-plant bargaining system that copper men have always used. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tug of War | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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