Word: umw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contract negotiations between Radcliffe and the Building Service local were delayed until the UMW dropped its attempt to organize the College's maintenance workers, and have not yet been resumed...
...UMW is now seeking to represent 35 kitchen employees, but its petition to the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission has been contested by both Local 254 and the AFL Cooks and Pastry Cooks International...
...Labor Relations Commission took the UMW petition to represent the kitchen workers "under advisement" yesterday morning. The hearing was complicated by the dual "intervention" of the Building Service and Cooks unions. No jurisdictional election can be held until those unions decide which of them will contest the UMW...
Another key dispute was the threatened coal strike this fall. There, stentorian pronouncements about milk and children issued from UMW headquarters until their author met with the President shortly before November 4. Then they ceased. Lewis, never known for his amenability toward government limits on his union, cheerfully wended his way South. No strike hindered the Democratic Party's electoral fortunes, and when Truman announced he had overruled his Wage Board and its carefully drawn precedents, the affair justifiably enough took on a musty odour...
...Board can, however, satisfy the Union's demands without causing a flood of overblown demands, Lewis' main argument for the increase is the disparity between the UMW's fringe benefits and those of other workers in heavy industry. If the miners will accept the 40 cents difference in the form of increased vacation pay, the strike can come to an early and honorable...