Word: white-collar
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...calling on them, but, more important, it will trim the company's costs by eliminating a great deal of duplicated effort. Big Steel hopes that it will help increase profits, which have shrunk from 9.5% of sales in 1957 to 4.7% last year. Reorganization will also mean fewer white-collar jobs. In the past two years, U.S. Steel has trimmed its office payroll by up to 30% ; the estimates are that the latest move will lop off another...
...theft, perhaps fearful that the thief they catch just may be one of their own. What's more, efficiency experts say that exposing employees to the strain of a perpetual manhunt is bad for morale. There is also the bad publicity to consider. Best advice, then, for the white-collar worker, as well as for his boss down the hall, is: Keep purses in locked drawers, wallets in pockets-and hang onto your hats...
Switchmen's Union of North America (18,000). Boss of the Switchmen's Union, founded in 1906, is Neil P. Speirs, 50, a business administration major at the University of Idaho who left a white-collar job to become a switchman during the Great Depression because the pay was better. Switchmen are essentially brakemen who work in railyards rather than on the road, taking over from road crews as the trains pull into the yards. In recent decades, automatic switching controls have taken over much of the switchmen's former work, so that, like firemen and brakemen...
...issues that never got to the bargaining table. Mainland-born Hall, who sailed to Hawaii in 1935, teamed up with West Coast Labor Boss Harry Bridges and now presides over a diminishing domain of plantation and dock workers, has been looking for a way to organize Hawaii's white-collar workers. With a small unit of his own union controlling some circulation-department workers and with the Guild seeking his counsel, Hall urged the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin employees to strike, and told them how to do it. Last week Hall spelled out his purpose frankly. The strike...
...minutes during a model run. Printed circuitry and other advances have cut the labor on a television set by 22% in the past five years, even though those technical breakthroughs have increased the bewilderment and helplessness of TV repairmen. Motorola reckons that it has increased the productivity of its white-collar workers as much as 20% by giving them output standards to meet. In a popular new system called PACE, developed by Northrop Corp., inspectors wander through work areas recording what each employee is doing at any given moment and clocking time spent...