Word: shopcraft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a decade. In the first six months, reports the Labor Department, more man-days (14,470,000) were lost to strikes than in any like period since 1953. About the only hopeful development last week was an apparent end to the impasse between the railroads and six shopcraft unions. As ordered by a presidential arbitration panel, acting under an extraordinary congressional mandate, the railroads will grant an 11% wage increase over two years to 137,000 workers. The settlement was unexpectedly generous to the unions...
...GoGo Union." While most railroad unions accepted 5% increases months ago, the Machinists and five other shopcraft unions held out for more. Dubbed the "gogo union" by its president, P. L. ("Roy") Siemiller, 63, the Machinists, whose $2.90 average hourly wage is far lower than what other industries pay for comparable work, wanted...
...output. In a small but violent dispute (at least 20 people injured), workers walked off the job at Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-the first general strike at the world's largest shipyard. Meanwhile, the possibility of a crippling strike by six railroad shopcraft unions flickered anew, though on Capitol Hill, there were hopeful plans to draft legislation to handle the dispute...
...made it clear last week, would not -permit a rail strike. The question was how to avoid it. As of last week, the Administration had exhausted the 60-day no-strike injunctions provided under the Railroad Labor Act. To prevent 137,000 workers in six shopcraft unions from tying up 138 railroads by taking a walk, Johnson had to request special legislation from Congress extending the strike deadline by 20 days. By margins of 81 to 1 in the Senate and 396 to 8 in the House, he got what he wanted-but Congress was clearly unhappy about it. Even...
...soon as the President signed the bill the shopcraft unions announced that they would observe the congressional ban but would strike at 12:01 a.m. on May 3, the moment the extension expires. Neither the railroads nor the unions showed any inclination to budge from their bargaining positions. The railroads were offering a 5% pay hike while the shopcraft unions sought...