Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motor scooters will be furnished for union committeemen...
...chunky Vice President Louis G. Seaton stomped out of a 14½-hour bargaining session with United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther shortly after one midnight last week and issued a grave statement. For the first time, said Seaton, the nation's biggest manufacturer and its second biggest union would have to work together without a contract because it was "impossible" to agree...
...U.A.W. made some concessions. But G.M. said that Reuther had merely trimmed his package demands "from a fantastic 73? an hour to an exorbitant and highly inflationary 48?." Altogether, G.M. was beset with 9,450 demands from U.A.W. locals-most of which will be settled by local G.M. and union officials. Some of them...
While the union went on working without a contract, thus losing for good the "no-contract, no-work" threat that it has used against the auto companies before, G.M. stepped up the pressure. It stopped collecting union dues by payroll checkoff, and told union shop stewards that they can spend only half their working hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog...
Today's events include a University Open House in the morning, facilitated by a regular shuttle service of buses to the Science Buildings, the Observatory and Union. The afternoon features a symposium at New Lecture Hall on Harvard after a generation, and the evening cocktails and the Pops Concert at Symphony Hall...