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...that atmosphere, a strike that could turn out to be the most significant one since the 116-day walkout of the steelworkers in 1959 began last week in Detroit. The nation's largest industrial union, the 1,600,000-member United Auto Workers, invoked labor's ultimate weapon against General Motors, the world's largest manufacturer. In a classic test of raw power, the strike pulled 344,000 workers off their jobs in 145 U.S. and Canadian plants. Every day that it lasts, G.M. says, the company will lose $90 million in sales, the men will...
...walkout is one more sign that union members everywhere are marching to a martial drum. This year the pace of American life has been snarled by an unusual number of strikes, and the appetites of union members have been whetted by some outrageously high settlements. Construction workers in this year's first quarter squeezed out wage increases averaging 18%. Last June, the Teamsters won hourly raises of $1.85 over 39 months...
...whether there will be an auto strike when the current three-year contracts expire Sept. 14. Company and union men seem to agree that only if the offers are substantial-for example, a 10% or more wage increase in the first year -is there much chance that a walkout will be averted...
...BELLIES BELONG TO US. Within two hours they had collected more than 1,000 signatures on a pro-abortion petition-including that of the mayor of Frankfurt. Tired of being used only as secretaries and bed bunnies, the female members of Germany's student S.D.S. staged a walkout-but not before hurling invective and rotten tomatoes at the organization's male chauvinists...
Company and union men take it almost for granted that when contracts expire on Sept. 14, the auto workers will call a strike. The most widely anticipated action is for the union to hit General Motors, its toughest opponent. An alternative forecast is for an initial walkout against Ford, which seems more willing to compromise, to establish basic money terms of a contract; that would be followed by a shutdown of G.M. in which work rules would be a central issue. Many Detroiters expect the strike-or strikes-to last until Christmas, or later. The union's $120 million...