Word: leland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chemical President Leland Doan: business will create a virtual revolution in the social system by "taking an increased responsibility for the health, education, security, estate planning [insurance benefits] and general welfare of its employees...
...Ford workers in the mile-long Rouge plant were scheduled to get strike orders. Reuther and Bugas negotiated through the preceding night and into the morning. As noon neared, unshaved, rumpled newsmen who had waited up all night crammed into the corridor outside the conference room in the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Inside, after 26 hours of hard bargaining, Reuther and Bugas stood up during a brief break and stared silently at each other. Reuther, who had won his principle, as planned, suddenly grinned and held out his hand. "You've got a deal. Johnny," he said...
...Semi-Annual Wage. In the Ford negotiations at the red-and-beige Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel, both sides talked-behind a pledge of secrecy -until almost a week before deadline. Then Reuther warned that G.M. had made an offer. Two days later, Ford's Vice President John Bugas presented a "partnership in prosperity" plan...
...cards were put on the table at a crucial bargaining session in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. There, after seven weeks of sparring behind closed doors, Ford made its major counter-offer to the U.A.W.'s demands for G.A.W...
Divide & Conquer. This week Ford Motor Co. was to be served with a similar union demand, in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. As the bargaining began, U.A.W. (and C.I.O.) President Walter Reuther sat back in his second-floor office at Solidarity House (U.A.W.'s elegant headquarters), ready to manipulate his teams by private telephone lines to each conference suite. He also soft-pedaled strike talk. When a newsman asked whether the auto workers will strike, Reuther replied: "If I knew the answer-and I don't-I wouldn't tell...