Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standard, the 19-day walkout of the tightly knit, semiskilled Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union was a bitter blow. Most New Yorkers had to make do with radio and TV reports (TIME, Dec. 22, 29), which were often skimpy digests of wire-service stories. The nine papers (daily circ. 5,700,000; 8,100,000 on Sunday) laid off some 15,000 workers, who lost an estimated $4,000,000 in wages. Struck during the Christmas rush, the papers missed some $30 million in advertising. Wrote Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Times in a whimsical office memo: "Last...
Making a mockery of the whole affair was the fact that neither the publishers nor the strikers won any ground in their struggle. Before the men walked out, the publishers offered a $7 wage boost over a two-year period, which was later turned down twice by the union members. The settlement was merely a rejiggering of the publishers' original offer: the union got a raise of $3.55 the first year, $1.75 the second, a ninth paid holiday (Columbus Day), and three days' paid sick leave. Estimated cost to the publishers: same as the $7, over-two-years...
Pickets paraded around the Chicago headquarters of the A.F.L.-C.I.O Air Line Pilots Association last week carrying placards: "Thanks for the Merry Christmas, A.L.P.A." "You've Got $28,000 Now. What More Do You Want?" "A.L.P.A., the Company-Busting Union." The pickets were American Airlines reservations agents protesting the strike by 1,500 pilots of American, the nation's biggest line and the sixth one immobilized by labor strife...
Design for Conveniences. A graduate of Atlanta's Emory University ('41), Chandler spent four years in the Navy before going to work in paper production in 1946. He was a sales vice president of Union Bag and a director of 13 companies (including Standard Packaging) when Wall Street Financier Edward Elliott in 1955 asked him to write a report on ailing Crowell-Collier, in which Elliott held a sizeable interest. After recommending that the magazines be killed, Chandler became temporary chairman. When Elliott turned to Standard (he owns about 5% of the stock), he put Chandler in command...
AFTER organized labor's smashing victories in the November elections, much of management is looking across the ruins of right-to-work proposals into the new labor-leaning Congress and expecting the worst. At close range, unions appear to be moving into a more powerful position than ever. But some labor leaders are looking at an entirely different side of the picture. Says A.F.L.-C.I.O. Industrial Union Research Director Everett M. Kassalow: Unions face "a crisis of truly historic proportions...