Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in his presidency, Richard Nixon was moved to use the Taft-Hartley Act. Despite his longstanding reluctance to interfere in labor disputes, he sent Justice Department attorneys into federal court last week to stop the 98-day strike by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union that had shut down every port on the West Coast. The economic impact gave him no choice. Citing the "irreparable injury" of the strike, Government lawyers were granted a temporary restraining order. This week the court will consider a permanent injunction that would impose an 80-day cooling...
NEITHER the wage-price freeze nor presidential exhortation was enough to hold back a wave of labor unrest that swept the country last week. Most serious was the walkout of longshoremen on the East and Gulf coasts, which, together with the three-month-old strike of West Coast dockers, closed down virtually all U.S. deep-sea ports for the first time in history. In addition, a strike of miners brought practically all soft coal production to a halt. And the possibility of a crippling work stoppage hung over the nation's railroads. The disruptions are both a rebuke...
...four main battles: >The key confrontation is between the New York Shipping Association, which usually establishes the contract pattern for the East and Gulf coasts, and the International Longshoremen's Association, which represents 45,000 workers in locals from Maine to Texas. Bargaining foundered when neither side could agree on the formulation of a guaranteed annual-wage clause, which in the old contract required employers in New York to pay dockers whether they worked or not. The longshoremen are also demanding a wage increase of $2.90 to $7.50 an hour, double time for work after eight hours and substantial...
...deadlock between Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime Association drags on, though the tempo of negotiations quickened last week after an earlier meeting with Nixon. The 15,000-member union wants a wage increase of $14.40 to $52.92 a day, a guaranteed weekly wage, and total jurisdiction over loading and unloading cargo containers near the docks. This last demand precipitated the strike and remains the major cause of the impasse. The Teamsters union now claims jurisdiction over loading containers, and the shippers have refused to turn this work totally over...
...Lindsay fared less well among special-interest groups, reported TIME Correspondent Roger Williams, who accompanied the mayor on his trip west. Bay Area labor leaders, including Harry Bridges, president of the Longshoremen's Union, came out of a breakfast meeting with Lindsay only moderately impressed. Said Rudy Tham. international organizer for the Teamsters Union: "He's a nice guy, appealing, young [Lindsay looks younger than his 49 years], but I'm not sure about his labor record." A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany. who was not at the meeting, was considerably harder on Lindsay. He told reporters...