Word: lordstown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attached to assembly-line work-psychologically at least, the real issue of the strike-was barely confronted. The settlement mostly dealt with added pay, a little more vacation, and slightly earlier retirement. Only a year later, worker discontent exploded again at Chevrolet's highly mechanized Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio...
...United States, particularly among the young, is disenchanted with the prospect of new cars and suburban houses, coupled with full-time office or factory "careers" in a metropolitan area. The evidence for this is all around, Witness, for example, the signs of widespread discontent among younger factory workers at Lordstown, Ohio and chew here...
...workers on the speedy production line. Just how, nobody really knows. G.M. has traced the problem to its plant in Buffalo, which has been making G.M. parts for no less than 50 years. It is believed that defective shafts were accidentally shipped to the Vega assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, instead of being placed in specially colored orange chutes reserved for faulty parts. At the Buffalo plant the machine operators work under a "pride of workmanship" program and inspect the axles themselves. Then other inspectors double-check. Since G.M. discovered the problem in early May, the axles have been inspected...
Detroit's selling spree. American Motors' Gremlin is in short supply, forcing some customers to wait an extra five weeks for delivery. For the past two months, production of the Vega at Chevy's recently struck Lordstown, Ohio, plant has been at a peak level of 101 cars an hour. Ford's Pinto is the speediest seller of all: 175,000 in the first five months of 1972 v. 131,000 in the same period of 1971. Pinto benefited especially from the introduction early this year of a mini-station wagon that resembles Ford...
...half that. Those still on the job complained that they were being forced to speed up, do extra jobs and generally work too hard. The grievances got little response from G.M., but as they grew, so did the number of damaged cars. In mid-January, U.A.W. Local 1112 at Lordstown leaked a story to the press that G.M. was shipping defective Vegas to its dealers, a charge that G.M. vehemently denies. Cracks Gary Bryner, the mustachioed, hip-talking, 29-year-old president of Local 1112: "We warned them that we were going to get our story out if they wouldn...