Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boulwarism for years, but division between G.E.'s two big unions-the International Union of Electrical Workers and the United Electrical Workers-kept them from making a successful issue over it in the past. Now the entire labor movement is committed to the fight to kill Boulwarism. The strike has created an unusual alliance of twelve unions as disparate as the teamsters, the steelworkers and the autoworkers. Meany has pledged the entire A.F.L.-C.l.O. to support the war "until the hour of victory...
...unions may have a friend in court. The day after the strike began, a federal court in New York attacked Boulwarism. It ruled that G.E. had violated the National Labor Relations Act in 1960 by refusing to furnish information requested by the union, trying to deal directly with union locals and presenting a personal-accident-insurance program on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Judge Irving Kaufman chided the company for its "patronizing attitude" and charged it with an overall failure to bargain in good faith...
...intends to appeal, denying that the circumstances of the present strike are the same as those of nine years ago. Whatever happens in the current strike, however, G.E. can hardly lose. The day after the workers walked out,Chairman Borch told a stockholders' meeting that prices of many products will be raised as soon as the dispute is settled. The company can then pass the price of the wage package right on to the consumers...
...delicate one, to set the tone of the Administration in major labor-management disputes. In that, George Pratt Shultz stands in sharp contrast to his activist Democratic predecessors, Arthur Goldberg and Willard Wirtz, who intervened frequently if reluctantly at Lyndon Johnson's behest. Before last week's strike against General Electric, Shultz held private meetings with company officials and union leaders. He has quietly helped to cool several other labor disputes, particularly in the airlines. But he firmly opposes direct and heavily publicized intervention. "We want the free collective bargaining process, to work," says Shultz. "We will...
...really want to be a politician," Shultz says. "Basically I regard myself as a professional person." It is perhaps that professional detachment that allowed him to refrain from intervening in a two-month strike of East Coast longshoremen last winter. On a visit to New York at the height of the strike, he made a point of ordering bananas for dessert-to show that the strike had a minimal effect on the normal flow of goods...