Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born. The United Church of Christ began to come into being two years ago in Cleveland (TIME, July 1, 1957), when the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,401,565) agreed to merge with the Evangelical and Reformed Church (membership: 807,280). Working out an organic union between the two bodies is no simple matter; in Congregationalism each local church is entirely autonomous, whereas the Evangelical and Reformed Church is set up in the European tradition of pyramidal administrative authority. The first order of business before the 700 delegates who met in Oberlin last week...
...administrative road of union was rocky, the spiritual road was smooth and broad. The Commission to Prepare a Statement of Faith presented a 231-word document to the delegates, who passed it unanimously. Immediately after the vote, the delegates jumped to their feet-some laughing, many weeping-and burst spontaneously into the doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow...
...reached a last-minute settlement or allowed a strike to tie up 90% of U.S. steel production, those facts had already brought about a dramatic and significant change in the climate of U.S. labor relations. For the first time in 23 years, the nation's third most powerful union (after the teamsters and the autoworkers) had run-to its shocked surprise -into a stone wall. After years of giving in to union demands for wage raises, the steel industry this year met labor with a hard new line, refused right up to this week to give the union...
Management was willing to make some concessions, but only in return for others on the union's part. Many in and out of the industry felt that the companies were willing to give perhaps 10? an hour (TIME, June 29) if the union permitted them to reclassify jobs, eliminate featherbedding to take full advantage of automation, make other changes to improve efficiency. Such an exchange, the industry figured, would not boost overall payroll costs, thus causing a rise in steel prices. But the union rejected the swap, arguing that management's talk of featherbedding was "pure, unadulterated bunk...
Strikebrinkism. To try to bring pressure for a settlement, David J. McDonald, boss of the 1,250,000-member United Steelworkers union, had slipped away last week from bargaining sessions, flown to Pittsburgh for a private talk with Vice President Nixon. McDonald pleaded for government help to break the deadlock. He remembered the record 62½? , three-year wage package won by the steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly...