Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York World-Telegram and Sun (circ. 450,486). The rumor gained currency in the light of two major Hearst and Scripps-Howard mergers: last year's merger of Hearst's money-losing International News Service with Scripps-Howard's United Press, and last summer's union of Hearst's unprofitable San Francisco evening paper, the Call-Bulletin, with Scripps-Howard's equally unprofitable News...
...nation's railroads this week served notice on the industry's five operating unions of proposed work-rule changes they want in the next railroad agreement to replace the one that expired last week. Preliminary wage sparring has already gone on. The unions pressed for a 36?-an-hour boost, and the industry has counterproposed a 15? wage slash. Despite the wide gulf in wage proposals, however, the big fight will still be over union featherbedding. To eliminate featherbedding, the rail companies asked the rail unions to: ¶ Extend the basic day's mileage pay from...
...Union leaders challenge the railroads' charge that featherbedding costs $500 million a year, making it impossible for the rails to compete with taxfree, government-built highways, airports and waterways. They also contend that the number of rail workers has declined by 500,000 in the past decade, despite freight traffic increases...
...September that wiped out its eight months' profit and put the road $449,346 in the red for the first nine months. Other nine-month rail earnings: 1958 1959 New Haven $3,534,080 $7,362,154 (loss) (loss) Erie 5,487,565 5,191,812 (loss) (loss) Union Pacific 2.17 1.87 Oil company earnings for the third quarter were mixed amidst industry reports of overproduction. Big Standard Oil Co. (of California) reported a decline in nine months' earnings to $2.85 v. $2.97 last year. Despite a third-quarter drop in earnings, Gulf Oil Corp. showed nine months...
When he joined the industry's bargaining team for the first time this year, energetic, voluble Edgar Kaiser insisted that he be free to talk with union leaders on his own. While other steel heads refused to meet personally with the union, Kaiser bargained diligently. He called his settlement "noninflationary." To Edgar Kaiser the time seemed at hand to stop talking and get back to work. Says he: "We do not believe it's right to put people back to work under a court injunction. When you force things upon human beings, you simply make more trouble...