Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fair and just" but also "noninflationary." According to the guidelines laid down by his Council of Economic Advisers, that meant a maximum 3.2% total increase in wages and fringe benefits for the steelworkers, and the President made it clear that he thought this would be fair shakes for both labor and management...
...Pious Thoughts." All week long L.B.J. kept his blowtorch trained on the negotiators. He had Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz looking over United Steelworkers' President I. W. Abel's shoulder and Commerce Secretary John Connor hovering near Top Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. When that tactic flagged, he sent Wirtz over to hound management and Connor to rile labor. After a breakfast meeting with congressional leaders, he sent them trotting out of the White House clutching conveniently typed statements calling for a settlement. Almost minute by minute he received progress reports from his aides...
...Credits. Still, with the long Labor Day weekend ahead and L.BJ.'s agents all around, the conferees showed no new signs of agreement. The President was not about to give up. "Mr. Rayburn always used to say that there comes a time for every leader when he must shove in his whole stack," mused Lyndon. "Well, I've shoved my whole stack...
...young militants dedicated to standing up against the company. They have strongly opposed American Motors' efforts to impose work standards similar to those in other auto plants, have been particularly unhappy about a recent rash of short work weeks. American's easygoing work standards, which help make labor costs per Rambler higher than for competitors' cars, are a hangover from the days of George Romney, who let labor have its way as long as it did not impede the production of fast-selling cars. Now that American Motors' sales and profits are down, however, the company...
There is more than a touch of irony in the present labor dispute. The shorter work weeks that have angered the union leaders were not intentionally scheduled by American Motors; they were caused by periodic shortages of auto bodies. The shortages developed when large numbers of bodies, rejected by inspectors for faulty workmanship, were sent back for repair instead of on to the assembly plant. The union steward whose firing precipitated the strike was discharged for refusing to let his men in the Kenosha body plant work overtime-work that would have provided more bodies, thus making unnecessary the short...