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While the nation worried about the possibility of an auto strike, each of the three union bargainers assigned to the Big Three makers argued for the privilege of having his firm selected as the United Auto Workers' strike target. Finally, Walter Reuther gave the nod to Chrysler Corp., at the same time moving the strike deadline back to Sept. 9 so that there will be labor peace during President Johnson's Labor Day speech in Detroit. Following the divide-and-conquer technique that he has used so successfully in the past, Reuther hoped to pressure Chrysler into granting...
...Chrysler picked? Reuther noted that Chrysler had made a "phenomenal" recovery, is now the industry's second most profitable company in return on invested capital (after General Motors) and the nation's seventh largest. He claimed that Chrysler owes the U.A.W. a favor for contract concessions the union made in 1961 when Chrysler was in trouble, said that it is time that Chrysler pioneered a labor contract - as both Ford and G.M. have done. Reuther also doubtless considered that a strike against Chrysler would be less of a drain on the U.A.W. strike fund, would have the best...
...they will have to-chances are good that U.A.W. locals with their own grievances (26,700 in all) may start wildcat strikes that could shut down one or more automakers. Any strikes would, however, probably be short-lived. The auto companies are anxious to launch their 1965 models, Walter Reuther is itching to get on the hustings against Barry Goldwater, and the U.A.W. (together with some auto-industry bosses) would like to avoid embarrassing Lyndon Johnson, who kicks off his campaign with a Sept. 7 Labor Day speech in Detroit...
Christ & Churchill. As it is expected to in the script, the union turned down the offer, but it did so with such heat and haste as to banish any hope of a smooth settlement. Walter Reuther rather proudly paraphrased Winston Churchill to declare that "never have so few with so much offered so little to so many." Later Reuther managed to bring Christ to the bargaining table by asserting that He "would have given the most militant trade-union argument you ever heard." At week's end Reuther decided to increase pressure on the auto companies by delaying until...
...that productivity in the auto industry is increasing by 4.9% annually and that its workers deserve nothing less than a 4.9% wage hike. The industry's offer amounts to about 3.5%, higher than the 3.2% guideline laid down by the Administration to stave off inflationary wage raises. Walter Reuther does not care much for guidelines, snapped that "no economics professor is going to write our contract." The final settlement will be somewhere between 3.5% and 4.9%, and thus assuredly well above the Government standard...