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...President Leonard Woodcock, who succeeded the late Walter Reuther, will settle for no less than an 8% annual pay and benefit boost-for openers. That would match the average increase in U.S. union contracts negotiated in 1970's first quarter. The U.S. wage spiral will not be broken until one major labor leader settles for less than the average, but that leader will quite possibly be tossed out of his job by angry unionists. At G.M., an 8% raise would work out to 46? an hour for the first year, raising the company's average labor costs...
...first Henry sneered at bookkeepers and was bitterly antiunion. Henry the Second revived the company partly by instituting thorough cost accounting procedures and establishing relations of mutual respect with the late Walter Reuther. When Ford took over, the company was losing $10 million a month; last year it earned $546.5 million on sales of $14.8 billion...
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN Walter P. Reuther, LL.D., late president of the United Auto Workers. No speaker for those who toil in oar midst can replace him, for he was that rare human individual: a man who cares enough to make change not only possible but real...
...union's next president will inherit a conflict that even a bargainer of Reuther's skill and prestige would be hard-pressed to resolve peacefully. The three-year contracts in the auto industry expire Sept. 14. Responding to the surge of militancy from union men who feel that their wage gains have been eroded by inflation, Reuther had talked up huge wage and pension demands. He also was building a $120 million war chest that could carry the U.A.W. through a ten-week strike against General Motors, or a longer one against Ford or Chrysler. Auto men, hurt...
Firmer Command. To the often-squabbling U.S. labor movement, Reuther's death may bring a period of surface calm. Although he helped mightily to negotiate the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger in 1955, Reuther was a constant disturber of the peace within the federation, needling its officials to conduct bigger organizing campaigns and do more to help civil rights and other causes. In exasperation over the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s slowness to heed these pleas-and no doubt in frustration over his own dimming chances to become A.F.L.-C.I.O. president -he led the U.A.W. out of the union federation...