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...leadership to the next. This relatively halcyon condition dates from the late 1940s, when Walter Reuther, the progressive ideologue who headed the union for 24 years, built a durable power base. After Reuther's death in an airplane crash in 1970, two men vied for his mantle: Leonard Woodcock, the intellectual chief of the union's General Motors division, and Reuther's apparent favorite, Chrysler Department Head Douglas Fraser. When it seemed certain that Woodcock had garnered 13 of the U.A.W. executive board's 25 votes, Fraser bowed out gracefully. Last week he got his reward...
...members-are advising Carter during the transition. They include Carter's Vice President, Walter Mondale; the commission's former director, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who could become Carter's National Security adviser; one of the President-elect's leading union backers, U.A.W. Chief Leonard Woodcock; Attorney Paul Warnke, a possible choice for Secretary of Defense; and Columbia Professor Richard Gardner, a Carter foreign policy aide...
...Labor has two favorites, both being pushed by AFL-CIO Boss George Meany: Harvard's John Dunlop, 62, to return to the Labor Department he headed effectively until he quit in a policy dispute with President Ford, and U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock, 65, to become Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Andrew Brimmer, 50, one of the nation's most distinguished economists-and a black-is considered a possible Secretary of the Treasury. So, too, are Peter Peterson, 50, a Commerce Secretary dropped by former President Nixon; Robert Roosa, 58, an Under Secretary of the Treasury...
...been an occasional element in the United Auto Workers' industrial theology at least since the 1960s. After signing a new three-year contract that should end the three-week strike of 170,000 auto workers at the Ford Motor Co. in a matter of days, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock proudly announced a sighting of the promised land. The Ford pact, he announced at a Detroit press conference, "goes far beyond" previous contracts. In fact, he said, "we are on the road to a four-day week. The principle is there...
...retired workers to ease the bite of recent inflation; the company offered them a dental plan. The U.A.W. asked that cost of living adjustments to wages be sweetened; Ford refused, but offered base-pay raises of up to 82? an hour over the new three-year contract. Said Woodcock, noting Ford's record first-half profits of $785 million: "They were obviously in a strong financial position to meet the proposals we have made...