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CATERPILLAR'S 12,600 STRIKING WORKERS IN PEOria, Ill., must have felt last week as if one of the company's mammoth earthmovers had just rolled over them. Despite the United Auto Workers' $800 million war chest (which could have provided up to $60,000 in benefits for every family on the picket line), the five-month-long siege suddenly collapsed. The union leadership failed to gain a single demand on wage and medical-care issues. The employees had to wait to be summoned back to work, while the company considered eliminating more than a thousand jobs. Many U.A.W. members...
...Hand: Clinton flew to Peoria, Ill., last week to have his picture taken with striking members of the United Auto Workers at the Caterpillar plant. "It's not good business to replace workers," Clinton told them. "They have a right to strike, and they shouldn't lose their jobs doing it". . . On the Other Hand: Last month he praised rank-and-file U.A.W. workers at the General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas, for going "against the leadership of their own union" to accept flexible new work rules that persuaded GM to keep the factory open. Clinton implied...
...BILLED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT SHOWDOWN between management and labor in this country since Ronald Reagan crippled the air-traffic-controll ers union 11 years ago. But the situation in Peoria, Ill., involving the leadership of Caterpillar Inc. and the United Auto Workers is really all about pain...
AMERICA ABROAD: Foreign Policy in Peoria...
When a publicity-hungry guerrilla gang kidnaped miner Scott Royden Heimdal near the Colombia-Ecuador border last April and demanded a $1.5 million ransom, his family in Peoria, Ill., despaired: the sum was utterly beyond its reach. Then Marge and Roy Heimdal heard that the kidnapers had cut the ransom to $60,000, and issued an appeal for help. Over the next four days, all Peoria joined in a frantic campaign to raise the cash. Children sold lemonade; retirees held bake sales...