Word: labor
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...waiting for reassignment. Kaiser also offers vacation time based on productivity gains. Variations of the Kaiser-Steelworkers' arrangement are being tried out elsewhere with success. The Electrical Workers, for instance, are organizing training courses to teach members to work in atomic energy and other advanced fields. But organized labor as a whole has hardly begun to face up to the problem-and the opportunity-of automation...
Forward-looking labor leaders are sure that they will have to find "new markets," branching out from old-line industries, and that is not always easy. Some complain that the electronics industry, for one, is mobile to the point of being nomadic and therefore hard to organize. When one union was contemplating organizing insurance company employees, the union paper struck a note of comic despair: "Can you imagine the national reaction to a strike of insurance salesmen?" Some labor leaders expect to develop new forms of cooperation with management, such as the industry-wide boards that already function in steel...
Above all, organized labor will have to become more attractive to the public. One experiment in that line, tried by the Retail Clerks, used low-keyed, soft-sell TV spots. But some of labor's public relations snags will take more than TV to solve. Union leaders have used their tremendous influence to fight Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to enact right-of-work laws (its repeal was passed by the House, is now before the Senate). No doubt, union membership has been held down by 14(b), particularly in the South...
Organized labor is less than ever a monolithic segment of a fragmented national society. No more can it afford to make purely demagogic demands of industry, and to an unprece dented degree, labor and management are forced to work together. In this sense, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz is fond of quoting Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark...
...industrial revolution was born in 18th century England, and British working attitudes hardly seem to have changed since. Nowadays petulant, cosseted and truculent, British labor will down tools at the merest hint of any slight or insult. It will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices that are the despair of man agement efforts at efficiency-and often of labor union leaders themselves. This year alone, Britain's auto industry, main stay of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's export push to bolster the sickly pound, has already been hit by 109 separate strikes equaling...