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...primary issue in the East and Gulf Coast strikes remains wages. It has been enormously complicated by a dispute over a New York provision for a guaranteed annual wage and by leadership tensions within the International Longshoremen's Association. Union President Thomas W. Gleason met with shipowners in Miami last week. No significant progress was reported, but President Nixon evidently remained reluctant to invoke Taft-Hartley on the East and Gulf coasts, preferring to give the disputants more time to work it out for themselves. Meanwhile, shippers who tried to avoid the dock mess in the U.S. by diverting...
Fear of Strikes. The immediate crunch will come on the Pay Board, which is composed of 15 members representing labor, management and "the public" (five members each). Coal miners and East and Gulf Coast longshoremen are now striking for raises larger than the 5% to 6% increases that the White House has hinted should be the golden mean during Phase II. Last week employers made a tentative offer of an 8.3% raise to the coal union. The Pay Board has legal authority to veto any settlement that high, but it would do so at the risk of prolonging the already...
...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...
...Longshoremen also struck East and Gulf Coast ports two weeks ago, but the walkout in the West had already gone on much longer with more serious consequences. The 15,000 striking I.L.W.U. members had idled 249 ships at a cost of about $2 billion. Feed grains, furniture, machinery and even Christmas trees destined for Viet Nam had piled up near the docks; ships carrying bicycles and Scotch were anchored in the ports. Major importers estimated that the work stoppage had reduced their annual volume of sales by 15%, and West Coast politicians had bombarded Nixon with demands that he intervene...
...East Coast, shippers are no more anxious for Nixon to intervene than they were in the West. The 45,000 striking members of the International Longshoremen's Association, on the other hand, insist that the shippers have locked them out; they would welcome an order to return to work. It was the shippers who forced the strike when the three-year contract expired two weeks ago. New York shippers served notice on the I.L.A. local that they would no longer accept the contract definition of a guaranteed annual wage. They insisted that they were being driven into bankruptcy...