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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Perils of Prosperity | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advisors to Aid Technology Research; Reuther, Goldberg Are Among Notables | 3/24/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Tired Old Guard | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: New Record for Stubbornness | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: New Record for Stubbornness | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

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