Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense. As promised in his State of the Union message, he sent Congress the outline for his defense reorganization plan. It reflected his own military experience, bore his own touch. If carried through, it can ultimately be as important to the U.S. as any of its new weapons, because it gears the military establishment to fast decisions in the day of instant...
First, it must enact a customs union of the islands. Tariffs are now a jumble. Antigua collects duties on goods in transshipment to St. Kitts. which in turn collects another duty upon arrival (smuggling is commonplace). Jamaica's industries are protectively walled off. will presumably suffer from competition from other islands. The new law will have to eliminate these barriers, create a common market, set common tariffs, provide for negotiating commercial treaties with other nations...
Most striking notions of the evening: 1) Tuve's suggestion that love of learning be rekindled among high school teachers by giving them time off for their own scholarship, and 2) Rickover's observation -prompted by a remark on the "union card" restrictions for teacher .certification fossilized into law by pressure from the teachers' colleges: "I hope this audience knows that neither Dr. Killian nor Dr. Tuve could qualify for a permanent teaching job in the high schools of this city...
...told. Reuther's proposals would boost autoworkers' wages and benefits by 35? to 45? an hour (not counting the bonus), almost twice as much as the 21? package the union won in 1955. Said Reuther: "It's the biggest package ever...
...week's end the G.M. talks were recessed for a fortnight, and Reuther got ready to make his demands on Ford and Chrysler. The hard bargaining will come when the current contracts near their expiration dates between the end of May and early June. And though union and management are poles apart, everyone hopes a strike can be averted. At most, the U.A.W. may walk out on one automaker, most likely Ford. A strike against G.M.. the biggest employer, might well flatten the U.A.W.'s $50 million strike chest, while a strike against lagging Chrysler could wreck...