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...crucial steel negotiations, however, generosity has its limits. The Steelworkers, whose contract expires May 1, are asking a minimum 4% increase in wages and fringe benefits. That is below the 4.8% that Walter Reuther won from the auto industry last fall, but well above the Johnson Administration's 3.2% wage guideline. Equally adamant, the steel industry insists that any increase beyond 2%-the average increase in productivity between 1957 and 1963-would force a general rise in steel prices. The union, preferring to look at the increase between 1959 and 1964, cites a productivity gain of 4%. The prospects...
Members of the committee include Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg; Senator Gordon Allott (R-Colo.); Frank Stanton '36, president of Columbia Broadcasting System; AFL-CIO leaders George Meany and Walter P. Reuther; and Gerald Piel '37, editor and publisher of Scientific American...
...UNITED AUTO WORKERS: Walter Reuther, 57, has two capable subalterns: intellectual Leonard Woodcock, 54, chief of the union's G.M. bargaining unit, and British-born Douglas Fraser, 47, an affable bargainer who deals with Chrysler and American Motors...
Curiously enough, it was another intervening labor leader, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, who broke the deadlock. Apparently looking for a way out of the trap his own stubbornness had sprung, the pressmen's Frazee paid a clandestine visit to Reuther at the U.A.W.'s Solidarity House and humbly asked for help. "I'll make a compromise proposal," Reuther said, "but I won't argue." Within a day, both the papers and Frazee's pressmen accepted the terms...
...Reuther's proposals ironed out the remaining issue between the two sides: whether to operate new high-speed presses with 15-man or 16-man crews. For one year, proposed the U.A.W. chief, the presses will run with 16-man crews. Then, unless the pressmen agree to submit the issue to binding arbitration, the 16th man will be dropped...