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...their 30-minute unpaid lunch break and two twelve-minute paid periods during the eight-hour shift. Now the union wants to shut down the assembly lines for at least 15 minutes during each shift-making a total of 39 minutes' released time. Says U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, who will conduct most of the negotiations with G.M.: "You have coffee breaks on assembly lines all over the world. Only the U.S. has no coffee breaks on the assembly line...
...with the baggage check?" He put it in his pants pocket, that's what, and he forgot to take it out when he gave the pants to Capannelle. And that was a mistake. Because one day when Capannelle is feeling particularly peaked, when visions of roast woodcock are dancing in the old clown's head, he just happens to find that baggage check. Now of course Capannelle would never dream of doublecrossing his confederates, not even for $130,000 worth of groceries. But it seems there is no honor among tapeworms...
...halt and millions of commuters skipped work rather than try their luck on the highways. Slowly but surely, disenchantment with the unions is growing. In a 1954 Gallup poll, only 12% of the British public considered unions bad-by 1959 the figure had nearly doubled to 23%; Says ..George Woodcock, one of the leaders of the Trades Union Congress: "We have lost the general sympathy that the public usually reserve for the underdog. Trade unions came into existence to resist injustice and oppression. Trade unions should be careful that they do not even appear to be becoming the instruments...
Other Pastures. Following the time-honored Detroit script, union leaders, expressed shock and anger. "Incredibly inadequate," cried U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock, chief of the union's G.M. department. Stalking out of the Chrysler meeting, U.A.W. Vice President Norman Matthews, who heads both the union's Chrysler and American Motors departments, snapped: "I'm going where the grass is greener." He headed for American Motors...
...While United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther led the planning for the auto wage negotiations, the man who did the union's talking in last week's parleys with General Motors was his heir apparent and chief bargaining strategist at G.M., Leonard Woodcock, 50. A quiet, reflective negotiator, Len Woodcock, though born in Rhode Island, was educated at the British public school of Chipsey ("A poor cousin to Eton," says he), still speaks with a slight English accent, lives in Detroit's fancy suburban Grosse Pointe. Woodcock's demands for 1961: a 26?hourly wage...