Word: mcdonaldization
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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...
...Industrial Dictatorship." Management's insistence on tinkering with Section 2-B was in one sense a stand on principle, but in another sense it was a lucky break for the steelworkers' Dave McDonald. After seeing most of their postwar wage gains canceled out by price upcreep, rank -and-file steelworkers were wary of following McDonald into a strike for higher wages. But when industry negotiators started talking about changing work rules, steelworkers began heeding his warnings that the bosses wanted to bring back the bad old days of "industrial dictatorship" and "assembly-line slaves...
With the rank and file backing him up, and with other unions contributing as rarely before to his strike kitty, McDonald could refuse even to discuss revision of 2-B at the bargaining table. Result: total deadlock. Last fortnight, denouncing the negotiations as a "farcical filibuster," McDonald walked...
...going home. This farcical filibuster has ended." So said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week as he and his aides broke off Manhattan negotiations with management on the eleven-week-old steel strike, left for Pittsburgh. Said McDonald: "The industry has not offered one cent. You cannot bargain with a stone wall...
...letter seemed to accomplish little. The industry's reply to Ike reiterated its position that a wage increase would be inflationary. Steelworkers President David J. McDonald renewed his bid for face-to-face meetings with the chief executives of the twelve companies. In deference to the President's request for uninterrupted bargaining, the union and management negotiating teams held their first weekend session, though neither side showed any sign of budging from its position...