Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everything was fine until a U.S. Department of Labor wage-hour inspector turned up at the little shop last summer. When he found out about the coffee breaks, he said that Greinetz would have to pay for the time. Said the inspector: "As soon as they step in your shop, they are on your time." Greinetz refused to pay, so the Labor Department took the question to Colorado's U.S. District Court...
...barred from the docks 670 hoodlums with criminal records, abolished the daily "shape-up" (at which I.L.A.-blessed bosses doled out jobs) and opened its own hiring halls for the port's 31,900 longshoremen. The I.L.A., which beat out an A.F.L. rival to win a union-shop contract last year, set out this summer to stop the commission's slow cleanup...
...most sought-after labor-relations adviser in the U.S. today is Joe Scanlon, 56, onetime prizefighter, open-hearth tender, steel company cost accountant, union local president and now a lecturer in industrial relations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wearing an open-neck sport shirt and studding his shop lingo with four-letter words, Joe Scanlon looks and sounds like anything but what he is: a fervent evangelist for the mutual interests of labor and management, who knows how to sell the idea to both sides. His selling device: the Scanlon Plan, designed to 1) cut the worker...
...took the bits and pieces of what he had tried out in dozens of companies and put them together at the Adamson Co. of East Palestine, Ohio, a small maker of welded steel tanks. Complained Owner Cecil Adamson: "I give the union everything it asks for. But still the shop isn't working well. Let's get together and work out something so that you'll get something and I'll get something." Joe went into the plant, checked the books, and determined a "normal" labor cost per unit. He then set up a system...
Sweet Sorrow. In Blackpool, England, Brian Winter was fined ?5 ($14) after he got into an argument with Gas Station Owner Ernest Wicks, slugged him on the head with a souvenir he had bought at a nearby shop-a stick of candy a yard long and four inches thick...