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...backside by a man whom bystanders identified as an officer of Harrell's own local. The two men had been on opposing sides of a bitter internal battle over the U.A.W.'s newly negotiated contract with Ford. On one side are the union's skilled tradesmen-the tool-and diemakers, electricians, mechanics, millwrights and repairmen. On the other side stand the union's leadership and the unskilled and semiskilled production workers...
...shooting was the most serious skirmish, but hardly the only one, since the agreement was reached with Ford three weeks ago. The tradesmen have argued with their officers, fists have flown, and skilled union workers have picketed Solidarity House, the U.A.W.'s international headquarters. The fighting centered on the major issue in this year's auto industry negotiations: overtime...
...Ford's workers have demanded, and won, the right to refuse extra working hours. Ford negotiators, worried that a refusal by skilled tradesmen to work overtime might tie up their plants, bargained a key clause into the contract. The clause permits management to meet the tradesmen's refusals to work by filling the gaps with unskilled workers and part-timers, or by jobbing the work out to nonunion shops. To the tradesmen, some of whom earn well over $20,000 a year, the threat of replacement by unskilled or nonunion workers was a challenge to their status...
Major Turn Down. The tradesmen damned the contract as a sellout, and they urged the rank and file to reject it. Ignoring that call, the regular production workers voted in favor, 119,925 to 38,684. Under a union bylaw, however, the tradesmen can reject any part of a contract dealing specifically with them, and they voted against the agreement 20,089 to 5,943. Never before had a contract recommended by U.A.W. negotiators been turned down by a major constituency...
...large number of Buildings and Grounds tradesmen who were contacted during the past two weeks have said they like Murphy because he treated them well. Most of the workers contacted said that the new reorganization has introduced a greater sense of impersonality into Buildings and Grounds's already impersonal structure...