Word: retrainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor & Agriculture. Step up automation, start broad new programs to retrain workers displaced by machines, empower the President to appoint arbitrators to settle lengthy strikes, gradually remove all farm-production controls and replace "the obsolete concept of parity" with support prices based on overall prices in the modern economy, help marginal farmers find other jobs, expand the "Food for Peace'' surplus-export program...
...announced the selection of President Clark Kerr of the University of California to head up a company-union automation committee. Under a new contract, Armour contributes 1? per cwt. of meat processed to a special automation fund. With the money the committee will study and recommend ways to retrain and relocate workers laid off as a result of the introduction of new machines. Says Kerr: "I think there will be many more committees such as this one. We will see a new pattern of collective bargaining...