Word: featherbedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lumps on the Featherbed
For six months the I.T.U. has been engaged in a bitter dispute with ten New York papers* on the subject of bogus. Negotiating for a new contract, the union committee has abandoned its showcase demands, e.g., a $30 weekly pay boost for a 30-hour week, settled for management'...
Hoping to avoid any antilabor tag, Nixon and Secretary Mitchell (who urged the committee, boosted Nixon for chairman) are planning to look into all cost-push factors, not just rising wages. Example: in the featherbed-ridden construction industry, a sure target for investigation, the committee will delve into such nonwage...
In Siles, the U.S. is backing a battler. To keep his program from being junked or sidetracked. Siles has gone on a hunger strike, threatened to resign, taken to the road to talk down an impending general strike. Much of his trouble has been spawned by left-wing elements in...
At last the dictator saw that his haywire economic development lacked those prime essentials of productivity-labor efficiency and capital investment. He appealed to the C.G.T., but the unions had made their featherbed and were happy to lie in it. Seeking investment, he signed a contract for Standard Oil of...