Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late April, 60,000 members of the United Rubber Workers walked off their jobs at plants of the industry's Big Four (Firestone, Uniroyal, Goodyear and Goodrich), starting what had been billed as the big labor showdown of 1976. By June 1, according to most assessments, the walkout should have begun to put a serious crimp in the nation's recovery from its worst post-World War II recession. Instead, as it enters its seventh week, the strike has been only a minor annoyance, and the nation's response seems to be one big yawn...
...Ford Administration, anxious to keep long strikes from disrupting the recovery, is keeping a nervous eye on the rubber situation. Yet mediators have not seen fit to call round-the-clock negotiations, let alone recommend that the Administration ask for a Taft-Hartley Act injunction that would stop the strike for 80 days. Such injunctions are permitted legally only if a strike damages the national "health and safety" and, says one federal official, "we would have a hell of a time making a case" for an injunction...
...government's next reform will be a national yes/no referendum in October on proposals to create a bicameral legislature. The present rubber-stamp Cortes and National Council will be replaced in 1977 by a 300-member Lower House, elected by universal suffrage (long demanded by leftists). There will also be a 285-member Senate with "equal powers." Candidates for the Upper House will be put forward by an entrenched local power system that is the legacy of the Franco era: provincial authorities, government-sponsored labor unions and associations of businessmen. Forty will be members for life. The King will...
Commodity Accord. After some tense moments, a compromise emerged at week's end. Negotiations on certain commodities-perhaps rubber and iron ore, among others-will begin before the end of the year. Though the hard-liners among the Group of 77, notably Peru and the Philippines, pressed for a final confrontation, the breakthrough came at 5 a.m. when Chief U.S. Negotiator
...stiff price. Last month Usery produced a settlement that ended a Teamsters strike after only two days but will oblige trucking companies to raise drivers' wages and benefits by nearly 33% over three years. His next job will be to settle the month-old walkout of rubber workers (negotiations resume this week) before shortages of tires begin closing down auto plants. After that come tricky negotiations in the construction, electrical and auto industries...