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...into an accord. If at the end of 60 days no agreement is reached, the union would be free to resume its strike. Under such circumstances, past Presidents have sought emergency legislation to avert another walkout. In 1971, for example, Congress imposed a settlement after a strike by railroad signalmen...
...International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Usery has made no enemies as the Government's "middleman" in labor disputes. He has been a tenacious round-the-clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor movement. His lack of a solid...
...Board seemed well on its way to becoming the laughingstock of Phase II. Having set a guideline of 5.5% annually for wage increases, board members proceeded to approve labor contracts that called for first-year pay boosts of at least 15% for coal miners and 14% for railway signalmen. Last week, however, the board decided to show some New Year's resolve. By a vote of 9 to 5, the labor-business-public group rejected an aerospace agreement that would have provided an immediate 12% wage increase for some 150,000 workers...
...fact, what made the aerospace agreement different from those of the mining and railroad industries was the lesser likelihood of a strike. At the time of the earlier decisions, coal miners had already been off their jobs for six weeks, seriously depleting the nation's coal supply, and signalmen were clearly ready to begin an economy-crippling shutdown of U.S. railroads. By contrast, the nation's ailing aerospace companies have been forced to lay off more than 180,000 workers in the past three years, leaving most of the rest grateful to have any kind...
...been so snarled by quarreling among its labor, business and public members that it has not yet even worked out a form on which employers and unions can report proposed wage boosts. In its first two specific decisions, it approved scandalously inflationary wage contracts for coal miners and railroad signalmen. It is difficult, however, to imagine the Pay Board doing any worse this year, and there is some chance that it will do better, though perhaps at the cost of strikes. The business and public members who fill ten of its 15 seats intend to shave down a 12% boost...