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...seats is a built-in microphone activated by a hidden button. It is a fitting setting for a spirited, but civilized, debate between powerful opponents who have come to know each other well. Such a square-off is exactly what is likely to begin this week when Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, reaches across the table to shake hands with George Morris, GM vice president for industrial relations, and open new contract negotiations between the union and the automakers...
...Detroit is that it will be Ford) and doubtless continue talks down to the last midnight. Meanwhile, both sides are indulging in the usual rhetoric. GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy has warned that labor contracts that raise costs without improving productivity are "fateful mortgages upon our economic future," and Woodcock has spoken portentously of "the final countdown" to bargaining. Yet even the sloganeering has lacked fire. For example, a U.A.W. convention early this year displayed a banner demanding REASONABLE WAGE INCREASES-hardly the battle cry of hot-eyed militants...
...year covered by the report, 17 officials received at least $100,000 a year, with some getting more than $150,000. President Frank Fitzsimmons, at $125,000 plus expenses, receives less than some of his underlings but is still doing better than any other labor-union leader. President Leonard Woodcock of the 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers Union is paid $48,000, and $60,000 is tops at the big (700,000-member) American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union...
...pitch in person to Democratic House and Senate leaders in Washington this week. He also plans to court the leaders of the AFL-CIO. Its president, George Meany, would prefer Humphrey, but is described by associates as resigned to a Carter nomination. In contrast, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock endorsed Carter last week...
Udall in Michigan and Brown in Maryland. With the backing of Woodcock and other U.A.W. leaders, Carter seems certain to win in Michigan, even though Udall is mounting a two-week blitz that involves spending "$80,000 for sure, $160,000 if possible...