Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After that decision, the railroads set an April deadline date for putting the new rules into effect. To head off a strike, President Kennedy set up an emergency board, headed by ex-Judge Samuel Rosenman, an old New Dealer. The Rosenman panel in effect backed the Rifkind recommendations. Again the railroads generally endorsed the panel's findings, and again the unions rejected them...
...weeks ago, with a strike threatened on July 11, President Kennedy won another delay, this one for 19 days, by persuading the management negotiators to postpone the implementation of the rules revisions while a new six-man presidential panel put out still another report. Last week the panel submitted a factual, 15-page review of the issues in the dispute, offered no recommendations for settlement...
...unions defend the pay-rules system on the ground that it is good for the railroads. Says G. E. Leighty, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Association and a member of the presidential panel that reported this week: "The truth is that the railroads, since they pay their train-service employees no Sunday or holiday pay, night differentials, away-from-home expenses or other premium payments . . . actually save under present work rules among their operating workers...
...Brink." The unions involved often make it sound as if the railroads' determination to revise the work rules were capricious and tyrannical. In fact, the work rule changes are similiar to those recommended by a presidential commission and approved by another presidential panel (see box following page). And management's right to change the rules has been upheld in the federal courts. Against that weight of neutral and expert opinion, the unions have wielded only one really persuasive argument-the threat to strike if the companies do what the U.S. Government has repeatedly said they have reasons...
Also on the panel was Russell Connor, television lecturer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...