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Major labor negotiations are due to take place during the year. The auto and rubber workers and the teamsters are all bargaining for new contracts. Although such groups represent only a small fraction of the total American labor force, they traditionally have set the wage pattern for the rest of unionized employees and even influenced wage settlements for many nonunion workers...
...boat's main cabin and went to her stateroom. Some time later, dressed in socks, nightgown and a down jacket, she stepped out on deck. The air was cool (mid-50s) and stunningly clear after the day's rainstorms. She untied the rubber dinghy from the stern and then, according to Noguchi, fell from the Splendour into the 63° F water, bruising her left cheek as she tumbled overboard...
Industries that provide materials to the automakers and homebuilders are also in serious trouble. Steel companies have idled about 50,000 employees, and the rubber industry has laid off some 10,000. The timber business has toppled. In Oregon alone, 22,000 lumber workers have lost their jobs. Governor Victor Atiyeh has declared the industry to be in a "state of emergency" in an effort to qualify local businessmen for federal relief loans...
...official in Detroit, where more than a million people a month cross from Canada, cautions that reports of heightened vigilance along the border should not be blown out of proportion. Says he: "There is no massing of agents along the river looking for men in a rubber boat towing a SAM missile...
Firestone's survival was also helped by some important concessions from the United Rubber Workers union. In Noblesville, Ind., Firestone workers took a pay cut to save jobs. In Memphis, employees agreed to reduce 20 work classifications to five. Says Nevin: "We now get 30% more production out of the same equipment and overhead costs...