Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palace: a promise by Ruiz Cortines to revoke the fare hikes and appoint a committee including rioting students "to consider all aspects of this complex problem." Even that failed to pacify the students. They sallied out, joined a leftist faction in a street battle for control of the labor union at Pemex, the national petroleum monopoly. The students helped attack Pemex headquarters, retreated when hard-pressed police fired...
Last week Curtice pointedly announced that a change in the corporation's management meant no change in G.M.'s offer to the union (see below), i.e., a two-year 16? hourly wage package as opposed to the 48? package the U.A.W. demands...
...plant the same day that Pontiac's 1959 models were put on view. Said G.M. Vice President and Top Negotiator Louis G. Seaton: "The hit-run guerrilla warfare has the obvious goal of crippling 1959 automobile production." Nevertheless, the companies refused to budge from a firm no to union demands...
...U.A.W. negotiators heatedly denied that the scattered strikes represented overall union policy. But as they prepared for top-level U.A.W. strategy sessions this week, it was plain a showdown was near. Early predictions had been that Ford would be struck. But last week, with more than two-thirds of the wildcat strikers out at G.M., the pressure had shifted. Best guess on when a strike would be called: around Oct.1, when 1959 Chevrolets should be rolling...
...thing that might affect union strategy was an abnormal slump last week in new-car sales. Despite the fact that output has been low-4,288,907 cars this model year compared to 6,212,291 in 1957-the backlog of cars in dealers' hands was still high. With production cut back, the United Auto Workers had expected a quick sellout of 1958 models with resultant pressure on the companies to settle so that the dealers could get 1959 cars to sell. But with car sales sliding, the cleanup of 1958 cars will take more time than expected...