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...Flexibility. Auto companies dread Government intervention more than Reuther does. But Reuther, too, is under pressure. He badly needs a favorable settlement to strengthen his hand in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (see THE NATION), yet cannot afford to antagonize either the Administration or the general public. Equally important, his own union-whose membership has fallen as the cost of auto labor has increased (see chart)-has been hard hit by layoffs in recent months and is in no mood for a strike. Result: for the first time since 1937, Reuther last week walked into the bargaining room with no headline-catching...
...Reuther talks about a "bold new approach" designed to promote job security and opportunity. Actually, his bag contains a wide assortment of general proposals, and once he has felt the companies out, he will surely inflate one of his goals into a major issue. Though he has mentioned no specific wage hikes, he talks of creating new jobs through earlier retirement or a shorter work week. He wants to improve pension and unemployment-benefit plans, wants production workers to be paid salaries instead of hourly wages, wants the companies to pay all of hospital insurance premiums. He also wants...
...industry would consider noninflationary. The automen are dead set against a shorter work week and against putting all workers on salaries. The industry opposes continuance of the annual "improvement-factor" automatic wage increases and the escalator clause that adjusts auto wages to rises in the Consumer Price Index. Snaps Reuther: "I have made it clear that both clauses are basic...
Whatever else General Motors may lose to Walter Reuther at the bargaining table, it is almost certain not to lose its temper. G.M.'s corporate temper is kept in the strict but benevolent custody of Vice President Louis Goermer Seaton, 55, dean of the auto industry's labor negotiators and one of the most extraordinary adversaries a union leader ever faced...
...posh country-club life. In off-bargaining season, he plays poker and cribbage with union buddies, attends union social functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy'' (the Teamsters' Hoffa), "Jim" (the Electrical Workers' Carey) and "Dave" (the Steelworkers' McDonald), he frequently puts in phone calls to them to settle a point of argument. "If you treat most people right," says Seaton, "you get treated back the same...