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...silly strike to begin with, and it came to a silly ending. Walter Reuther had insisted that all local work issues-some 17,000 of them-would have to be settled before his United Auto Workers could reach a national agreement with General Motors. On the tenth day of the strike and with almost 300,000 men out of work, he changed his mind, decided that a national settlement would help to iron out local differences. After that, it took only eleven hours of negotiation to reach a national pact. That did not immediately end G.M.'s problems. Because...
...labor leaders go, Walter Reuther and Thomas Gleason are about as different as possible: one the smooth, articulate head of the tightly organized auto workers' union, the other the abrasive president of the rebellious and racket-tainted longshoremen. But both Reuther and Gleason insist on the importance of those vexatious laws of the laborer's life, the work rules...
Gang Warfare. While Reuther's U.A.W. wanted to eliminate some work, Gleason's heavily featherbedded longshoremen wanted to preserve some. Five times in the past eleven years they have gone on strike, and they have adamantly resisted shipowners' attempts to reduce the size of cargo gangs despite increasing automation. This year, backed by a presidential commission's findings that gangs could easily be cut from 20 men to 17, the owners offered a 34? hourly boost if the longshoremen would agree to a reduction. Last week the union answered by calling a strike that tied...
Rival for Dickens. Why are the workers so mad at G.M.? Speaking in terms that might have seemed suitable to Charles Dickens or Lincoln Steffens, Reuther charged that G.M. was "unwilling to provide workers with the minimum conditions of human decency." The company, he added, also schedules excessive overtime and disciplines workers without informing them of charges against them. The workers may have some justified grievances. G.M. is tougher than the other auto companies in imposing discipline and controlling working conditions, allows no infringements on managerial efficiency. But Reuther was plainly exaggerating. In fact, he was less interested in improved...
...union business. G.M.'s committeemen, powerful in the union, have long resented being treated differently from their counterparts at Ford and Chrysler and have stirred up workers' resentment against G.M. Even when G.M. made a last-minute offer to increase the time left free for union business, Reuther held...