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...Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen was free to strike last week as Government-imposed restraints expired. Though a strike that would snarl the nation's rail system is possible, the indications are that the signalmen will await the outcome of contract talks involving the larger shopcraft unions before pressing their demands. They want at least a 54% increase in their $3.78 an hour wage over three years...
...reluctantly turned to an unusual solution. By legislative action, it imposed what would be the terms of the unions' next two-year contract-an action that some labor experts thought might face a constitutional challenge. The terms, which provided a 68?-an-hour wage increase for 48,000 shopcraft workers who now make $3.60 an hour, were the same as the ones that the railroads and negotiators for four rail unions had agreed upon last December. At that time, the rank and file of the sheet-metal workers, the smallest of four rail unions, balked, principally because...
Ignoring a Labor Department plea for a seven-day delay, four shopcraft unions culminated more than a year of stop-and-go negotiations by striking the sprawling Union Pacific Railroad. Almost immediately, the railroads retaliated. The Penn Central, which daily serves nearly 140,000 commuters, announced that it would halt all its operations. The rest of the 128 lines involved in the dispute threatened to follow suit, and the U.S. suddenly faced the first nationwide railroad lockout in its history...
...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...