Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some unions also favor industrywide bargaining on the principle that employers can then no longer play off one local against another. But many union leaders oppose it, recognizing that it minimizes labor's ability to play one employer against the other...
Labor's strongest opponent of industry-wide bargaining is the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther. Once when his union was weak, he argued long and loud for industry-wide bargaining, hoping thus to get more prestige-and members-for his union. Now, says Reuther, "there is no way they can force us to bargain on an industry-wide basis." Industry-wide bargaining would cost Reuther his major weapon in wage negotiations: the "key bargaining" tactic by which he singles out one company for attack, then uses that settlement as a pattern for the others. In 1955, at the last...
...many a small company, collective employer bargaining is vital: no small businessman has a chance alone against a powerful union. Employer associations can not only pool resources, but also save employers' time and money by bargaining for them. The mammoth steel industry practices a highly useful form of industrywide bargaining, though it boggles at any formal association of companies. After a bad strike in 1946, U.S. Steel Corp. sat down in 1947 with the union and hammered out a contract setting a pattern that the rest of the industry has since followed. In effect, U.S. Steel, biggest and toughest...
...glass industry, got tired of seeing their wage scales leapfrog because of individual bargaining, feel that they have done much better since they decided to bargain together after a strike in 1936. Said a Pittsburgh Plate Glass executive: "We saw it as a means of protecting ourselves against the union's whipsawing tactics...
Other developments in the current controversy on Memorial Church and its use for non-Christian weddings included the initation by the Harvard Liberal Union of a daily "newsletter," called In Fact. It will emphasize historical information "relating to the terms under which the Church was built," according to Roger C. Algase '59, president of the organization...