Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budging was the steel industry's determination to turn collective bargaining into a "two-way street," as Cooper put it. In most big strikes in the U.S. since World War II, the fight was about the difference in size between the package management offered and the package the union demanded. But this time the steel industry brought to the bargaining table not an offer, but some demands of its own: contract changes to give management more control over conditions in the mills. Most important change demanded by industry: revision of the standard contract's Section 2-B, which...
Shaken by the President's intervention, Blough and McDonald agreed to resume negotiations-this time in Pittsburgh instead of New York. Management finally got around to making the union a money offer to chew on. But it was a small offer, totaling about 8? an hour in added benefits as against McDonald's demand for a 15? package. And at the same time the steel industry stuck determinedly to its insistence on contract changes, including revision...
Even with their problems of money and morale, Youngstown's steelworkers and their families are neither angry nor restive-not yet, anyway. "We've had a steel strike in the Mahoning Valley almost every two years since the war," said Union National Bank President Asael Adams Jr. "There's very little clamor or bitterness. People are quiet and peaceful. Maybe they're getting used to steel strikes." Added Steelworker Matt Inchak as the strike stretched into its twelfth week: "I'll stay out twelve more weeks if we have to. I've been...
...wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry cranes, and huge container vans with detachable wheels and chassis. Union men feared that the new equipment would also replace longshoremen, demanded a contract clause which would give the I.L.A. the right of approval on all new equipment...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8--A week old strike of dock workers for the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts was ended tonight by a federal court Taft-Hartley mandate. Union leaders immediately ordered 85,000 longshoremen back to piers from Maine to Texas. Waterfront activity was expected to return to normal by today...