Word: reuther
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...Roger Lowenstein describes in his book While America Aged, it was the remarkable UAW president Walter Reuther (1907-70) who won womb-to-tomb health-care coverage and retirement benefits for the rank and file. Reuther was an early advocate of universal health-care coverage, which was not going to fly in Washington. So he willingly traded small pay raises for deferred compensation in the form of pensions and retirement health care. The Big Three gladly signed on because the trade-off held down cash wages - and because they were lushly profitable companies, controlling 90% of the U.S. car market...
Reich's sentiment is shared by many Democrats who believe that the key to a strong economy is a strong middle class, and the key to a strong middle class is union bargaining. They point to heroes of the movement like Walter Reuther, the famed head of the United Auto Workers, who once famously noted that his workers were also Chrysler's best customers. "What studies show is that every time there's been a strong labor movement, there's been a strong middle class," says Janice Fine, a professor at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations...
...Christine A. Reuther ’83, then-chairman of the Council’s academic committee, said at the time that the report would most likely not have a significant impact, reflecting the body’s general sense of its limitations...
...Excoriate, in headline-speak 48. Site of 50th-anniversary observance of the Korean War's first casualties 50. The Supreme Court struck down its law banning partial-birth abortions 53. The 9-Down has met with Fujimori to push for reforms here 54. Dreaded '60s draft status 55. Reuther's org. 56. Give walking papers to 57. The American Heart Association has agreed to support __-cell research 58. Org. that Bush wants to split...