Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitchell, a topflight labor-dispute mediator before he went into Government, buried himself in the perplexities of steel profits, costs, wages, prices, productivity, unemployment. He will make no public report, but will exercise the subtle pressure of an Administration that sorely wants a solution...
Steel management received Labor Secretary Mitchell coolly; it believes that he has partially reversed President Eisenhower's original hands-off stand, and it resents Mitchell's feeling that the industry's soaring profits (see above) should be able to accommodate a few cents' hourly boost for the steelworkers...
When Rock Island railroadmen complained about their corncob-filled caboose mattresses half a century ago, they unknowingly baptized a working practice that is as old as man's labor and as fresh as this week's news. Chided the trainmaster: "What do you want-featherbeds?" Since then, featherbedding-the purposeful slowing down or spreading out of work to make jobs-has become one of the most emotion-packed points of dispute between...
management and labor. Today the practice pads U.S. labor costs by more than $1 billion a year, plagues a broad spectrum of industries ranging from trucking to show business, printing to airlines. This year, as part of industry's tougher stand toward labor, management aims to pluck some of the featherbeds. A chief cause of the current steel strike is management's insistence on winning more control over local working practices, partly motivated by the desire to wipe out what Chief Steel Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper called "loafing, featherbedding and unjustifiable idle time." The railroad industry, worst feathered...
Modern-day featherbedding got its grip on industry as labor's answer to oldtime management abuses such as the speedup, spread far and wide during World War II's crash production and cost-plus contracts. It is by no means an American phenomenon; featherbedding pervades many segments of labor in foreign countries, is often disguised behind the Iron Curtain to create the illusion of full employment...