Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whatever settlement OCAW reaches, with or without a strike, will influence the negotiations for a new master freight agreement to replace the one that expires March 31 for 300,000 members of the Teamsters. That contract will be the real make-or-break test of the guidelines. The Teamsters, unlike OCAW, are traditional pattern setters, and a truck strike could paralyze the whole economy...
Last time around, in 1976, the Teamsters won a 34% wage-and-benefit boost over three years, setting quite a precedent-more than 10% a year. Nobody expects the settlement next year to be quite that high. In the past, trucklines have usually won automatic approval from the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise freight rates enough to cover any wage-and-benefit boost they might grant. Now, the ICC, with Administration support, has served notice that it will not be so generous. The Teamsters also are greatly concerned with maintaining their pension funds. It may help that the Administration...
...knowledge that federal officials are pondering just how zealously to prosecute criminal charges of malfeasance. On the other hand, Fitzsimmons is on record as saying that he will not accept anything less than the contract (nearly 40% over three years) that the coal miners won last winter, a settlement that Administration officials, who have shown little facility for handling labor disputes, forced down mine owners' throats. Moreover, a large militant group within the Teamster leadership is ready to scream at any pact that they might view as a "sweetheart contract...
...Goodrich, Goodyear and Uniroyal-expire in April. The militant union has conducted eight major strikes since 1960; the last, in 1976, dragged on for 141 days. Another next year is likely. Still, the union's demands focus on job security rather than wages, and the cost of the settlement could be partly offset by changes in work rules...
Electrical workers. Some 300,000 electrical workers in four unions will negotiate new contracts between June and December; the pattern is usually set by the General Electric settlement in June. Most of the unions, again sensitive about imports, are expected to concentrate on job security, and if moderate wage settlements are reached in other industries, the electrical workers will probably follow suit...