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Global Boycott. Firestone and the other companies protested that operations producing shoe heels or tennis balls face intense competition from nonunion factories, and could not afford to pay tire-factory wages. The U.R.W. may compromise on this point, but across-the-board raises are another matter. Just before the strike deadline, Firestone increased its wage offer by a dime, to a $1.15 hourly raise over three years, and offered a COLA that would be activated if the Consumer Price Index rose more than seven percentage points in any one year. Peter Bommarito, 60, the U.R.W.'s tireless, white-moustached...
...last week, about half its prestrike size. Reporters found that they had to write their stories shorter, to fit the reduced news hole, and earlier, to meet abbreviated deadlines. "Son of a bitch, I wish this weren't going on," complained harried Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. Yet nonunion workers were using the new composition equipment to produce a fairly creditable facsimile of the prestrike Post, and some of Bradlee's colleagues were less troubled by the siege. Remarked Meagher as two female secretaries tended one of the paper's giant presses: "They get a hell...
When the American Newspaper Guild called a strike at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner back in 1967, the Hearst Corp. paper hired some 1,000 nonunion workers to replace the strikers. Negotiations between the Herald and the ten press unions affected by the strike have stumbled on for nearly eight years, but the afternoon daily has been coming out regularly with the aid of the nonunion "scabs," and readers have mostly forgotten about the walkout...
...under way to get employee-elected representation on the company's board, not necessarily a union member but any proven auto executive who could help turn the company around. The wedge would be the estimated 16% of Chrysler's 59 million shares held by union and nonunion workers...
WAGES, in the absence of controls, will continue spiraling. Workers everywhere will try to keep up with soaring food prices and the aftereffects of heightened fuel prices, which seem now to have peaked, yet continue to pull up other prices. Okun sees some of the biggest increases coming in nonunion sectors, as employers voluntarily pay more out of a sense of obligation to inflation-wounded workers and then pass the costs on to customers. In any event, says Pechman, some form of reasonable restraint is needed now in the form of direct and selective intervention by Government, or by next...