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...employees would be given preference for rehiring at other plants. The company demanded a three-year contract, offered to raise wages 3% immediately and 4% in April 1962, but refused to include a cost-of-living clause that was a part of the expiring contract. It offered only to retrain the unneeded employees it chooses for new jobs...
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...
...raising wages 8½?an hour the first year, another 6½?the second. Fringe benefits brought the package to 22? over the life of the contract, ranged from three-week vacations after twelve years (v. 15) to establishment of a $500,000 fund through company contributions to help retrain and relocate workers who lose their jobs through automation. Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines on employment, the fund will be operated by a joint management-labor committee with an impartial outsider as chairman. Other packers, such as Oscar Mayer, Cudahy...
Back to Infancy. But the human brain, especially in the young, has considerable powers of readjustment and a further capacity for retraining which medicine is now beginning to exploit. After a few days spent mostly in coma. Congrave perked up. His temperature dropped as the inflammation in the brain around the wound subsided. At the end of two weeks he could grunt a response to questions, and he was using his good left hand to help raise a glass to his lips. In another week, told to wiggle the fingers of his left hand, he could both understand the order...