Word: wsb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meat-packing workers, WSB approved a 9? increase to avoid a strike, even though 3? was the permissible limit...
...many a businessman, the steel dispute brought into focus the sad record of WSB to date. It is composed of 18 men-six representing labor, six industry, and six "the public." The six "public" members, who hold the balance of power, are mostly professional arbiters and theoretically impartial. In practice, their major decisions have been almost all prolabor. Examples...
...Wright Aeronautical's workers, WSB (over the industry members' protests) approved a 12? hourly boost, even while admitting that its own cost-of-living rules would allow only...
...maritime workers, WSB made an attempt at stabilization by approving only a 6% raise, v. the 8% agreed to by labor and management. But then WSB changed overtime regulations so that pay was actually boosted an average...
...result of such decisions is that, instead of stabilizing wages, WSB has helped them go up more than its own rules permit, at least in big cases where political pressures are brought to bear. With the coal miners, brass workers, oilmen, rubber workers and others, all waiting in the wings for their new contracts, it looked last week as if the steel decision would be the most unstabilizing...