Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Government an nounced that the number of Americans at work in August-usually a drop-off month-remained at a record 76.4 mil lion. In so tight a labor market, jobs are clearly going begging in many places. Surveying the situation in New York City, the Daily News last week reported that industry was "screaming" for "labor without regard for age, color, creed or intelligence," or even for knowledge of English...
Still, Lyndon Johnson intends to exert all the influence at his command to re pay Democrats who have done their best to support his Great Society programs. This week, with a Labor Day speech in Detroit, the President sets out in earnest on a campaign trail that will carry him to all 50 states before...
...County Judge Christ Seraphim and threatened to lay siege to the home of Judge Robert Hansen. At week's end, however, a partial truce was arranged by state officials, and Father Groppi agreed to stay out of Milwaukee's police short suburbs after dark during the Labor Day weekend...
While the sideshow went on in Detroit, General Electric and Westinghouse negotiators sat down with unions representing 180,000 electrical workers for what promises to be the main labor event in 1966. For weeks, G.E. has been fighting to prevent a coalition of eight unions, led by the International Union of Electrical Workers, into a single bargaining agent. Under present law, such a labor gang-up would seem to be patently illegal. But federal courts have ordered both G.E. and Westinghouse to talk to the unions as a group while the National Labor Relations Board frets over the problem...
...terms of contracts up for renegotiation, 1966 was supposed to have been an "off year" for labor; in the first half, however, the number of workers out on strike was well above the number in the first half of 1965. Wage increases jumped from a five-year average of 3.1% to 3.8%-even before the costly 43-day airline strike. With twice as many contract negotiations in prospect for 1967, on top of high employment and heightened labor expectations, the country is undeniably on what former Council of Economic Advisory Chairman Arthur F. Burns calls "the threshold of a wage...