Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildcat strikes that cut auto output were being gradually settled, auto production was starting up. Last week Ward's reported weekly car output at 45,003 units, v. 34,834 the week before. Chrysler production was rescheduled at 60% and Ford 25% ahead of the previous week. General Motors had not produced a car since Oct. 2, but this week at least two G.M. plants, the main Olds plant at Lansing, Mich, and the Buick-Olds-Pontiac plant at Wilmington, Del., are scheduled to get back into production...
...some giving on key points. Chrysler, traditionally plagued by the industry's poorest labor relations, agreed to grant greater preference to high-seniority workers when rehiring. In return, the U.A.W. accepted a cutback in company-paid union stewards and a tougher no-strike clause to prevent the wildcat walkouts that have hit Chrysler hard for the past three years...
...date this week for a strike, unless the Big Three fatten their six-month-old offer of a two-year contract extension. At week's end Reuther himself rejoined the contract talks for the first time since June 1, and both sides appeared optimistic. But wildcat strikes also continued to spread. Some 27,000 workers had walked off the job, by far the largest number since auto industry contracts expired 14 weeks...
With contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the three big automobile manufacturers still stymied, the U.A.W. last week stepped up the pressure on the companies. A sudden rash of wildcat strikes virtually shut down plants in Michigan, Ohio and Delaware; by week's end almost 16,000 workers had gone out. Their reasons for striking were often thin-in one case a leaky water pipe. More important, the U.A.W. high command, which has been discouraging strikes-at least publicly-seemed to have a change of heart. It was not only doing little to get the membership back...
...negotiators heatedly denied that the scattered strikes represented overall union policy. But as they prepared for top-level U.A.W. strategy sessions this week, it was plain a showdown was near. Early predictions had been that Ford would be struck. But last week, with more than two-thirds of the wildcat strikers out at G.M., the pressure had shifted. Best guess on when a strike would be called: around Oct.1, when 1959 Chevrolets should be rolling...