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Tougher Stand. A stiffening attitude is also evident on the Pay Board. In two previous rulings, the board's five business representatives sided with its five labor representatives in approving coal miners' and railway signalmen's contracts that were far above its 5.5% limit. Stung by criticism that they were knuckling under to labor to avoid strikes, the businessmen are now taking a tougher stand. They plan automatically to challenge all wage settlements above 7% in the second and third years of long-term contracts signed before the August freeze. Getting such boosts approved has been...
...Labor Secretary James Hodgson admitted as much last week by noting that the Administration fully expected to "swallow" a few extra large settlements early in Phase 11. These included the 15% pay boost granted coal miners in the first year of a new contract and a pact giving railroad signalmen a more than 16% raise, which was approved last week by the Pay Board. But all settlements involving more than 1,000 workers must be reported to the Pay Board, and the Administration expects that cases exceeding the guideline will become few and far between after the first few months...
...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...
Catch-Up. All could blame their immediate troubles on the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, a willful band of 13,000 men in an industry of half a million. The signalmen, who earn an average $3.87 per hour, walked out over a pay demand that would bring them a 55% wage increase in 36 months-better than one-third more than the package most other rail brotherhoods have accepted. Railroad managers argued that a "leapfrog" settlement with the signalmen would only produce new catchup demands from other unions...
...strike was effective because all the rail unions observed the picket lines of the tiny minority. Congress ended it by voting to give the signalmen an immediate pay boost averaging 131%, some of it retroactive to Jan. 1, 1970. But after the legislated "cooling-off" period expires next Oct. 1, the signalmen can strike again...