Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Health or Safety. In an effort to break the work-rule impasse last week, Secretary Mitchell held secret meetings with both sides, proposed a commission to arbitrate rules on a company-by-company or plant-by-plant basis. McDonald talked as if he would buy the suggestion-if the union had a vote on the commission. But management rejected the suggestion and thereby angered Administration officials. "Hell," snapped one, "they're now trying to get back from labor a good deal of what they themselves have given away over the last 15 years...
...injunction, while production is restored, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service works at the bargaining table, trying to bring the opposing sides into agreement. After 75 days, the National Labor Relations Board conducts a secret election, giving workers a chance to accept management's last offer (union members have never yet overruled their leaders, but the mere fact of the election exerts a pressure toward settlement...
Many workers are using their new popularity to get wages double or treble the union rate, while some employers are cutting working hours. When Volkswagen opened its new Kassel truck plant, 3,000 workers were put on a 4O-hour week v. 44 in the usual contract. Other plants offer cut-rate housing, fatter pensions, and so-called Thirteenth Salary, i.e., a month's pay at Christmas, now almost standard in Germany...
...Union Rejects New Proposals...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--The steel industry yesterday proposed to arbitrate the issue of work rule changes--one of the main obstacles to a steel strike settlement. The union rejected the idea...