Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Machinists Union and United Air Lines reached an agreement yesterday morning which headed off a strike scheduled for last night. Earlier in the day, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz announced the settlement of a dispute between the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the railroads...
Reuther's attitude results in part from the government's failure to develop any coherent or integrated approach to automation. In fact, most programs have paralleled Secretary of Labor Wirtz's speech to the convention. He said that "capitalism with a conscience and a government that says its business is people can meet the challenge of technology." Rather than outlining any immediate measures, he called for improving education in order to give "young Americans the skills they need in an automated work force...
...opening night last week, some 300 people packed the West Auditorium in the Department of State building. First came a brief speech by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz and an introduc tion by Ambassador Gutierrez. Then Conductor Leonard Bernstein of the New York Philharmonic introduced his pert blonde wife, Felicia Montealegre, a onetime Chilean actress. In English and Spanish, she recited from Chilean Bards Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, which left several of the ladies-and Bernstein-misty-eyed...
...sure, his Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz, has labored patiently to bring about a settlement. Last week he even got the five operating railroad unions to agree, for the first time, to "consider" the "principle of arbitration" as a means of settling key issues. The unions decided that they still didn't care at all for the principle. Negotiations broke down...
Thus, for the first time in memory, Congress found itself being forced to legislate arbitration of a labor dispute. The precedent pleased nobody. Wirtz feared that many disputes from now on may be settled by Congress. Eventually, this could badly damage collective bargaining. Eight Democratic Senators-including Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson-produced at week's end a statement that focused on these fears. Said they: "Free collective bargaining must survive without a precedent that would substitute legislation for negotiation...