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...happened; 1972 so far shapes up as the year that the nation's strike fever was broken. In May, work stoppages reached a 30-year low for the month. During the first six months, production time lost to strikes was only five seconds out of each potential man-hour of work, or little more than half the rate a year ago. In only four full years since World War II has the strike pace been slower...
...example, Bowden compares education with the auto industry. If an auto worker through technological improvements annually increases his output per man-hour by 4 per cent, the auto worker's wages can also increase 4 per cent a year "with no rise in prices necessary to maintain company profits...
...renamed "the civil servant" because "it won't work and you can't fire it." That derisive opinion of federal employees may now have to be changed. For the past year a Government task force has been conducting the first survey ever made of output per man-hour by Uncle Sam's hirelings. Last week Labor Secretary James Hodgson announced that the results were "a pleasant surprise": the bureaucrats in Foggy Bottom and environs have been getting bigger productivity increases out of their workers than have bosses in private industry. Between 1967 and 1971, the report showed...
...four-year period. Many taxpayers may suspect that federal agencies can improve their productivity by considerably more than 2% a year and still remain something less than models of efficiency. Also, the task force made no attempt to assess what has caused the rise in output per man-hour. Government officials speculate only that the ever-present specter of budget cuts and hold-downs has forced federal managers to figure out their own ways to get more out of their workers...
...wage increase to 10%. Though board rules permit a maximum combined increase of 8.9% in most cases, a board staff report suggested that the dock workers' increased productivity might merit them an exception to the rules. West Coast longshoremen have shown a huge 134% increase in output per man-hour over the past decade. Said Harry Bridges, their president: "The workers I represent produce one hell of a lot for the wages they...