Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sitting in the driver's seat of his rough-and-ready Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa last week set out full blast to run down the mild-reforming Kennedy labor bill, which rolled through the Senate (TIME, May 4) and is due up soon in the House. While Hoffa's aides in Washington were buttonholing Congressmen in an effort to kill or soften the bill-aimed principally at the Teamsters' own flagrant abuses of power-Boss Hoffa popped into Nashville to blow the horn not only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
...convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Miami, Massachusetts' Presidential Aspirant John Kennedy got a big hand and a pat on the back when he explained that his legislation was "the best bill we could get by the U.S. Senate." Said I.L.G.W.U. Boss Dave Dubinsky, in an introduction that all but stitched the I.L.G.W.U. label on Democrat Kennedy: "There has been considerable talk in informed circles about the possibilities of his holding the highest post in the nation ... If this should happen, we will have a better America and better legislation for the working people...
...biggest strike in the history of U.S. hospitals bedeviled New York City last week. At six voluntary, nonprofit hospitals (four in Manhattan, one each in. The Bronx and Brooklyn), nurses' aides, orderlies, porters, kitchen and laundry help hit the bricks on orders of Local 1199, Retail Drug Employees Union, A.F.L.-C.I.O. This week, with no settlement in sight, the union was threatening to strike several more hospitals...
With Relief, a Living. As usual, the disputants were miles apart on the strike's effectiveness. Said a hospital spokesman: only about 1,000 of 3,500 nonprofessional workers had heeded the call. Claimed the union: 3,200 out of 4,300 were out. But there was no question as to the issues: the union wanted recognition to bargain collectively for the workers, 27,000 of whom in New York City's 82 voluntary, nonprofit hospitals are woefully underpaid.* Local 1199 charged that the bulk of them make less than $40 (some as little...
Rhetorical Question. The hospitals were in a financial bind. All operate at whopping deficits (up to $1,872,000 last year for Manhattan's Mount Sinai, biggest of those struck). Retorted the union: underpaid employees should not be called on to subsidize hospitals. A major drain on the voluntary hospitals has been that the city pays them only $16 a day for care of indigent patients, though it budgets $28 a day in its own hospitals. On July 1 it will begin paying $20, and the hospitals promised to use the extra funds to raise nonprofessional workers...