Word: labor
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...speakers expressed their concern that rebel elements within the church are corroding faith, and contended that even the U.S. hierarchy is not exempt from the liberal disease. Keynote Speaker Frederick Wilhelm-sen, professor of philosophy and politics at the University of Dallas, declared that "the bishops of this nation labor mightily like elephants and then bring forth as solutions the mice of secular liberalism." The problem with liberalism, explained L. Brent Bozell, editor of the Catholic monthly Triumph (and brother-in-law of William Buckley), is its view of a world in which man is self-sufficient...
Although the unions demand a 9% pay increase as against the railroads' offer of 3%, the heart of the dispute involves a more basic issue. The unions have flatly rejected management's effort to link wage increases to productivity agreements-a step Britain's Labor government calls essential to revive the country's sick economy. Similar labor strife has poisoned industrial relations across the U.K. Most of the jet fleet of British Overseas Airways Corp. lay idle at Heathrow Airport last week because of a strike by 1,050 pilots, who demand that their salaries...
...Labor unrest is only one evidence that British complacency has more than survived last fall's devaluation of the pound. Though exports have since climbed by 15%, Britain's promised curb on imports has yet to take effect. May's $206 million trade deficit was just as large as April's. Last week the pound went to a post-devaluation low of $2.3829 on foreign exchange markets. Prime Minister Harold Wilson has so far refused to intervene in the labor disputes, after saying optimistically that "British industry...
Powerless Leaders. Of all their labor troubles, wildcat strikes hurt the British the most. Last month a Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations reported that 95% of British strikes are unofficial. The commission found that between 1964 and 1966 there were 2,171 wildcat strikes among the U.K.'s 500 trade unions; they involved 653,400 workers and 1,697,000 lost man-days of work. Over the same period, Britain had only 74 official strikes by 101,100 workers, with 733 000 lost man-days. "Britain is 50 years " behind U.S. the Labor U.S. in labor...
Even some labor leaders agree that the problem is serious. "Generally speaking, our industrial relations are almost unbelievably bad," says Lord Delacourt-Smith, general secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union. One key reason is that British unions operate in a legal near-vacuum. They are not bound by agreements they sign, are not liable for authorized acts of their officials. Industry-wide bargaining is al most nonexistent, and there are no provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to stall outrageous strikes. Still, the Royal Commission, which was headed by 70-year-old Lord Donovan, a former leader...