Word: cooperate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With bottomless patience the Taylor panel had been trying all week to cut through the murk of charges and counter-charges and down to the core facts of the strike. But they got little help from either Steelworker President Dave McDonald or Steel Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. With nearly 90% of the nation's steelmaking capacity idled since mid-July, with layoffs spreading rapidly through the economy as manufacturers shut down for lack of steel (see BUSINESS), McDonald kept spouting purple rhetoric, Cooper kept spouting dun-grey generalities. Said Chairman Taylor at one of the sessions...
...starting point for a last-minute solution. McDonald trimmed his demands for a two-year wage and benefits increase of 28½? down to a 19¾? package-the level at which California's Edgar Kaiser had urged his fellow steel men to settle. Industry's Cooper stonily told the fact finders that McDonald's package would really cost 33?, and the proposal was "unacceptable"; in its place he stood on a threeyear, 30? package (which the steelworkers said was worth only 14½ over the next two years) and put forward an industry proposal to submit...
...Conrad Cooper, chief industry negotiator, made the proposal at a hearing before President Eisenhower's fact-finding board in the 96-day-old strike...
Opposed on principle to Government interference in collective bargaining, Dwight Eisenhower had given the steel companies and the United Steelworkers of America plenty of time to arrive at a settlement. Since last May, on and off, Steelworkers President Dave McDonald and U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, head of the industry negotiating team, had glared and snapped at each other across the bargaining table in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel without making any detectable progress...
What kept both sides from budging was the steel industry's determination to turn collective bargaining into a "two-way street," as Cooper put it. In most big strikes in the U.S. since World War II, the fight was about the difference in size between the package management offered and the package the union demanded. But this time the steel industry brought to the bargaining table not an offer, but some demands of its own: contract changes to give management more control over conditions in the mills. Most important change demanded by industry: revision of the standard contract...