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After settling the toilet strike at General Motors, the United Auto Workers last week called a lack-of-time strike against the Ford Motor Co., the first company-wide strike since the U.A.W. organized the Ford empire 20 years ago. Negotiators had spent so long hammering out the specifics of the new contract's economic demands that by dawn of the deadline day there was no time left to resolve such noneconomic issues as more union control over worker assignments and more relief time. Both sides lost the race with the clock, and out walked 120,000 Ford workers...
...Walter Reuther on the economic clauses of a new three year contract only to see a majority of G.M. plants shut down by local disputes over work rules. Last week Reuther and G.M. Negotiator Louis Seaton settled the major noneconomic points in the contract, including such delicate matters as toilet time and pay for union shop chairmen. But still walkouts caused a shutdown in 39 G.M. plants, crippled production at another...
...negotiators scoffed. But, taken together with a host of sticky disputes over local working conditions in G.M.'s 129 plants, toilet time produced the most needless major strike in U.S. history, early this week sent 257,000 workers walking out of 91 G.M. plants...
Empty Pipelines. For G.M. the damage had been done. Under pressure from Labor Secretary Goldberg (see cover), the toilet-time issue was quickly compromised: G.M. agreed to guarantee enough relief workers to spell each man for his 24 minutes, and Reuther dropped a demand for an extra 15 minutes relief time. By week's end, local agreements had been signed between G.M. and 72 of the striking locals...
...even if the rest of the strikes were settled quickly, many more production days would be lost before components plants could grind out enough parts to fill the dried-up pipelines to G.M. assembly plants. In the meantime, everybody would have plenty of time to go to the toilet...