Word: mcdonaldization
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...contract meets Steelworkers President David J. McDonald's avowed objective of spreading the work and stimulating earlier retirements. It includes longer vacations, and plumper pensions and layoff benefits. An electronic computer figured that this complex deal adds up to roughly a 2½% increase over present labor costs-which is approximately the steel industry's annual productivity gain...
...Nutcracker. McDonald could scarcely have got more, with one in three of his Steelworkers laid off or working only part time and the rest in no temper to repeat the 116-day strike...
...witches may be comical, but the Sorcerer is actually a woman's part, demanding the majesty of the Ring's Erda. But Harvery Mole discarded all stature and gave his voice a harshness which was supposedly villainous but instead was merely ugly. Neither he nor the Spirit, Michael McDonald, knew how to pronounce properly either for diction or sonority: McDonald was so ineffective that Aeneas seemed the more powerful when the Spirit told him to depart. And the witches could not sing. The chorus blended well and enlivened the evening with their vigor. But they were plagued with faulty pitch...
...McDonald wanted a token wage hike plus a many-fringed package to soften layoffs and spread the work: bigger unemployment benefits, longer vacations, higher pensions, and 13-week sabbaticals for 20-year veterans. Management estimated that this would add up to 14? or 15? an hour, or a boost in labor costs of at least 3.5%-somewhat more than the 3.1% annual rise in U.S. industrial productivity. The steel companies countered with a 5? to 7? proposal, or about 1.5%¶somewhat less than the steel industry's annual productivity gain of about...
...their independence, both sides curiously enough expected more Government intervention, and in a way hoped for it. Heretofore, President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Goldberg have spoken only in generalities of the national need for statesmanship in steel. If they now become more specific, and particularly if they endorse what McDonald wants, management could give it to him and then blame the Kennedy Administration for any subsequent price rises in steel. In the meantime, the entire U.S. economy was threatened with the dislocation sure to follow hurry-up buying of steel as a hedge against a possible strike...