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...Your book review on The Company and the Union by William Serrin [March 19] states: "In the end, U.A.W. members cheered a settlement that, by Woodcock's admission, could have been won before the contract deadline, which meant that the strike itself was little more than a blue-collar catharsis." Of course, I did not make such "an admission," because I could not have done so. Mr. Serrin only implied, without any evidence, that the settlement offer was available in September. Even he never attributed such a ridiculous admission...
Even a lot of help from his friends wasn't enough. Despite testimony by a parade of character witnesses that included New York City Mayor John Lindsay, Talk-Show Host Dick Cavett and United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service last week gave ex-Beatle John Lennon, 32, 60 days to leave the U.S. Lennon, who has been living with his wife Yoko Ono in Manhattan since 1971, was refused permanent residency because of his 1968 conviction in England for possession of marijuana. "If we are deported, it is synonymous with losing our child...
Author Serrin contends that the fault for the auto industry's blue-collar treadmill lies with the top echelons on both sides. Over the years, the chiefs have grown closer to each other than they are to their respective Indians. This "civilized relationship," as Leonard Woodcock once called it, in practice seems to produce a kind of industrial-age charade in which both parties tend to forget about everyone's long-term interests and settle on short-term gains that are pretty much predetermined...
...helping finance the strike against itself. The company's explanation: GM stood to lose more in public relations points than it could gain at the bargaining table had it ruthlessly pressed its advantage. The real turning point came not through patient haggling but during a secret meeting between Woodcock and GM Chairman James M. Roche, at which both resolved that the strike must be ended before Christmas. After terms had been accepted by the union leadership, GM Head Negotiator Earl Bramblett - doing what he could to get the rank and file to approve the deal - dutifully implied that...
...U.A.W. members cheered a settlement that, by Woodcock's admission, could have been won before the contract deadline, which meant that the strike itself was little more than a blue-collar catharsis. Be cause of the cost of the walkout and loss of overtime during the recession, relatively few eligible workers took ad vantage of the "30 and out" early-retirement program that was supposedly their major gain. Employee absenteeism soon returned to its normal 5%, and employee morale does not seem much different from that expressed by the worker who explained his frequent sacrifice...