Word: rubberizing
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...accepting him, Temple waived only a few visual skills-for example, reading X rays. Otherwise, he was required to fulfill all the requirements. That forced Hartman to use considerable ingenuity. In gross anatomy classes, for instance, to take advantage of the sensitivity of his fingertips, he shunned the rubber gloves worn by his classmates when poking around in cadavers-until his fingers became numb from the preservative formaldehyde...
Plastered to the gold-wallpapered column in the lobby of the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, a newly printed bumper sticker proclaimed: DON'T BUY FIRESTONE PRODUCTS. Nearby, in an elegant ballroom, negotiators for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Rubber Workers had failed to wrap up a new contract-and so, across the nation, 60,000 union members walked off their jobs at plants of the industry's Big Four (Firestone, Uniroyal, Goodrich and Goodyear...
...time" was the spring of 1973, when Phase III wage and price controls were in effect and the U.R.W. signed a contract providing a 6.2% maximum annual pay and benefits increase and containing no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) provision. Since then, prices have risen so fast that the rubber workers, who now make an average of $5.50 an hour, have found that their purchasing power has slumped 8% despite the raises. Most galling, auto workers, whose pay scales the rubber workers have traditionally paralleled, negotiated their 1973 contract after Phase III had expired, and pushed their pay scales...
...rubber companies will be under great pressure to come close to the union's demands. The Ford Administration has demonstrated that it wants no long walkouts in an election year; it accepted, as the price of settling a two-day strike, a Teamsters' contract that may raise wages and benefits 33% over the next three years. Moreover, the rubber companies are expected to increase their profits by perhaps 33% this year, thanks to the growth in auto production. Firestone President Richard Riley has forecast a 23% growth in worldwide sales of original-equipment tires...
...deal sets a bad precedent for the important negotiations coming up in the rubber industry (where contracts expire this week), construction and autos. Having given a kind of official imprimatur to the Teamsters settlement, Ford-and Usery, who will be involved in all the negotiations-cannot convincingly argue that any other union should accept a smaller one. Instead, the message of the Teamsters settlement is just the reverse: the Administration does not want any long strikes disrupting the recovery in an election year and is prepared to countenance-or maybe even lean on employers to accept-wage and benefit boosts...