Word: nonunionism
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...Three contracts will not get their annual 2½% wage boost (averaging 7?an hour) and cost-of-living hike (averaging 2?), due on June 1, unless and until the union signs a contract. In the past, whenever the U.A.W. won a raise, the companies also raised nonunion and salaried employees the same amount. This week the Big Three automakers gave 2½% wage boosts and cost-of-living hikes to their 173,000 nonunion and salaried employees. It was a strong hint that the U.A.W. can expect little more...
They were so cozy that they grew soft about enforcing their agreements. Management protested that Old Warhorse Dubinsky had signed substandard contracts, with nonunion shops out of New York to organize them, thus made it tough for Manhattan manufacturers to compete. Dubinsky hotly denied it. His union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract...
...dominate the U.S. trucking industry are collective-bargaining clauses barring trucking companies from transporting "hot cargoes." A hot cargo can be anything at all, even frozen food; what makes it hot is that, somewhere in the course of its travels, it has been handled by a company that is nonunion or is having union trouble. By forcing trucking firms to contract not to handle hot cargoes, the Teamsters make it more difficult for other truckers to hold out against Teamster pressure...
Last week Washington's eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission struck the hot-cargo weapon out of Hoffa & Co.'s hands. Ruling on a case in which nine trucking companies operating out of Oklahoma City had obeyed hot-cargo clauses in refusing to handle goods transported by a nonunion Texas trucker, ICC firmly declared that licensed "common carriers" operate under a "statutory obligation to serve the public" without discrimination-and that this "absolute" obligation cannot be set aside by any labor contract...
...column, trimmed admen's commissions. Hoiles had agreed to honor the News's American Newspaper Guild contract with editorial and business office staffers, but employees had no hope of renewing the one-year contract,when it expired last February. Many longtime staffers quit and were replaced by nonunion newsmen from other Hoiles papers. In May, when contract negotiations broke down, the Guild called a strike. Circulation dropped steadily (from 35,107 to an estimated 22,000), advertising dwindled despite rate cuts of as much...