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...called on the steel companies to renew the bargaining process, and big steel was willing to talk. Just where this would lead, no one knew. Originally, the union had asked for a union shop and for wage and fringe benefits which would eventually cost the company about 35? per man-hour (present average hourly wage: $1.83). The Wage Stabilization Board recommended 26.1?, plus the union shop; the union gleefully agreed. Steel company officials offered 17.6? (no union shop), said that they could not pay the proposed 26.1? increase unless the controlled price of steel was raised...
...terms, as Feinsinger explained them, would grant the union wage and fringe benefits, such as paid holidays, which would eventually cost the companies 26.1? per man-hour (present average hourly wage: $1.81). The union demands had totaled about 35?. The labor members induced the public members to join with them in recommending a union shop...
...American Woolen may be forced to join the trek of New England mills south because "New England is at a great competitive disadvantage." Labor is cheaper in the South-up to 40? an hour less-but even more important "is the amount of work employees give for that wage." Man-hour productivity is so much greater in the South, said White, that Southern mills can undersell Northern mills 30¶ to 50¶ a yard. His company has already bought a mill in Raleigh...
...Kahn extended his modernization program to his other plants, from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island, man-hour output doubled: a worker who could operate only one of the old machines was able to tend two new ones with the same amount of effort. "We had our troubles convincing the union to boost productivity," says Kahn, "but we were firm. You have to help them understand that labor has as big a stake in industry as management...
...doubtful that such gains can be repeated this year, because of the disruption of switching to defense production. But after the still newer plants now being built go into operation, man-hour output should go up faster than ever...