Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national interest. To him, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley could only result from the failure of collective-bargaining procedures, in which he deeply believes. Yet last week he had to invoke Taft-Hartley twice, once in the Eastern dock strike, again-and with more disappointment-in the marathon steel strike...
...office at 8 a.m. last week. Among them were Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting the strike by injunction for 80 days to provide a cooling-off period. He named a three-man committee of labor experts to write...
Earlier in the week from California, the President had invoked Taft-Hartley in the East and Gulf Coasts dock strike that had idled some 70,000 workers. But to Dwight Eisenhower, the necessity of using Taft-Hartley in the steel strike was far more distressing, and he put his feelings into the announcement of his decision. Wrote the President: "I profoundly regret that the parties to the dispute have failed to resolve their differences through the preferred methods of free collective bargaining, even though every appropriate Government service was available to them in support of their efforts." The President pointed...
Stop & Go. What exasperated President Eisenhower was not the actual failure by steel management and labor to reach agreement, but the halfhearted, stop-and-go manner in which they had negotiated. Last week after urgent personal requests from the President that they get down to serious negotiating, labor and management met over a coffee table in Pittsburgh's Penn-Sheraton Hotel. The session followed the same pattern of dull do-nothing that had characterized all the previous negotiations. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough pointed to the management's offer of a "15? wage package," stuck by his demands...
Despite a massive exchange of press releases and newspaper ads about the wage package, the real issue was still not wages but the work rules set up twelve years ago by Section 2-B of steel's standard wage contract. Management demanded change because the rules foster "featherbedding and loafing." The management demand solidified union ranks, raised howls that a change would let "stopwatch pirates come into the mills and set speed-up practices." Neither side made a clear case. Steel has no record of flagrant featherbedding; as compared to the same period in 1951, U.S. Steel produced...