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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ideologically, Fraser is further left than his union, a blue-collared bundle of tensions divided on social and economic issues and standing outside the AFL-CIO. During the 1976 negotiations, when he was a U.A.W. vice president, Fraser pressed to have auto workers elected to the Chrysler board. He admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fraser Goes into High Gear | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

He insists too that the "No. 1 priority demand" is to adopt a cost of living escalator for union pensioners. Fraser intends to push for a four-day work week, though he will probably have to battle for a few more days off with pay (auto workers can now take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fraser Goes into High Gear | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

A terse two-page press release announced that Hamilton, who last year earned $759,000 in salary and benefits, had "resigned" over "policy differences" and would be succeeded by Executive Vice President Rand Araskog, 47. Company flacks who a few hours earlier had been extolling Hamilton's abilities now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Welcome Home, You're Fired | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Rogers' prime target has been J.P. Stevens & Co., the second largest U.S. textile maker, which for more than 16 years has fought off unionization despite repeated warnings by the National Labor Relations Board and three contempt citations by federal courts. Labor regards cracking Stevens as the key to organizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Weapon for Bashing Bosses | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Next the ACTWU turned its ire on the New York Life Insurance Co. by announcing that it would run its own candidates for the board against Finley and New York Life's chairman R. Manning Brown Jr. A contested election would have cost the insurance firm as much as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Weapon for Bashing Bosses | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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