Word: reuther
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...raising the prospect that predominantly white oldtimers might willingly relinquish jobs to black newcomers, the U.A.W. is neither so naive nor so self less as it might sound. Thanks to sup plemental unemployment benefits and the guaranteed annual income that Walter Reuther's union has won in recent years, veteran workers would hardly suf fer at all. A man with a year or more on the job would still draw nearly 95% of his weekly wage for 31 weeks. A man on the job for seven or more years could get similar benefits for a full year. Under ordinary...
...second principle does not mean simply that the doctor must be paid for his services, which is his obvious right. Rather, it means that he must be paid for each individual service, on the basis that U.A.W. President Walter Reuther aptly and contemptuously calls "piecework." It means that no doctor should offer lifetime care to a patient for a flat or annual fee, and thus rules out prepayment by an annual dues system. It means that when a patient goes into a hospital for an operation, he must pay the admitting doctor's bill, a separate surgeon's bill...
...members of the Council were picked from a wide range of experience." Mayer said. "Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers Union, are both on the Executive Committee...
...from the loser are almost obligatory, but others under less compulsion to be generous to the winner after a close campaign also indicated a readiness to withhold judgment. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, a loyal Wallace man, sent congratulations to "my President." So did George Meany, while Walter Reuther, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Whitney Young Jr. expressed good wishes. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a special target for Nixon during the campaign, said there should now be "no recriminations...
...South Dakota. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership ratified George Meany's support and began an urgent, if belated drive to recapture the loyalty of unionists who have been drifting toward George Wallace. The United Auto Workers' liberal executive board-the least friendly labor group because of Walter Reuther's opposition to the war -formally endorsed Humphrey as well...