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Labor Member Leonard Woodcock, whose United Auto Workers Union is one of the main labor groups that bargained with aerospace employers, described as "cynical" the board's decision to hold the line on workers employed by a depressed industry. But he also acknowledged its efficacy by pointedly omitting any mention of a strike. Public members suggested a compromise formula that would trim the first-year wage boost to 8.3% but increase the second-year raise from 3% to about 7%. That seemed equitable enough, but labor members, still smarting from their first real defeat on the board, were...
This week the board is scheduled to begin considering its third position in six weeks on employee merit raises, after members decided that their first two decisions would prove unworkable or unfair. Such backtracking has convinced many critics that the board lacks top leadership. Woodcock, for one, has said that Boldt "may be an excellent Federal judge but in my opinion he is not qualified to be chairman of such an important body" as the Pay Board. Boldt strenuously rejects such criticism. "I have not just been sitting on my fanny around here," he told TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan...
...suggestion almost as tough as management's. Apparently convinced that too much inflation is built into existing contracts, they proposed extending the freeze for two months, and requiring renegotiation of any labor agreements providing pay increases totaling more than 12% in the past 23 months. Growled Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers: "This is an insult...
Whether Meany will be won over is still highly doubtful. He has reserved his decision, pending a meeting this week of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 35-man executive council. Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers and Frank Fitzsimmons of the Teamsters, who head the two largest unions in the country, will also attend, even though their unions are not in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Both have been asked to sit on the Pay Board along with Meany, although Woodcock has echoed Meany in declining to do so unless he is assured that the board will be independent...
...Board, with a goal of stopping inflationary wage and salary increases, will draw its members from labor, management, and the public. Briefing newsmen before his speech, Nixon said that AFL-CIO president George Meany, United Auto Workers president Leonard Woodcock, and Teamsters president I.W. Abel would be members of that board...