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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger to our beleaguered society." To keep it from happening again, Stevenson proposed that Congress arm the President with an arsenal of new antistrike weapons, ranging from boards empowered to make settlement recommendations (present law bars Taft-Hartley boards of inquiry from offering recommendations) to compulsory arbitration if the two sides proved unwilling to "exercise responsibility consonant with their power...
Against the background of swollen costs and intensifying foreign competition, the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel's Board Chairman Roger Blough, decided to take a stand on two propositions in this year's contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers: 1) increases in wages and fringe benefits must be noninflationary; and 2) collective bargaining must become a "two-way street," with the union yielding management a freer hand in control of plant operations...
Despite loud bargaining noises, the two sides have come comfortably close to agreement on wages (the company's last offer was a 30? package increase over three years-to an average $3.40 an hour -which the union says is really 22?). But the basic issue was industry's demand for changes in the contract's twelve-year-old Section 2-B, which had deprived the steel companies of the right to change "local working conditions"-practices and customs, varying from one plant to another, governing such matters as crew sizes, the duties of particular jobs...
...first Blough & Co. demanded a contract clause saying that 2-B would not "restrict the company from improving the efficiency and economy of its operations." Last month the industry eased this demand to a proposal to submit the 2-B issue to a two-man panel (one member chosen by the industry, one by the union) with compulsory arbitration if the panel failed to reach agreement by mid-1960. McDonald refused to consider even this diluted proposal...
...behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government and the U.S. public with a demand for thoughtful answers...