Word: mcdonaldization
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...workers in U.S. steel mills want their union (membership: 1,250,000) to push for higher wages? Yes, of course, says the United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, getting ready to call a strike when present contracts run out in early summer. No, says doorbell-ringing Pollster Samuel Lubell, after interviewing steelworkers in ten cities around the U.S. "Of the steelworkers interviewed," reports Lubell this week for United Feature Syndicate, "five of every six are against further wage hikes...
...they got ready to bargain on a new contract, steelmakers and union seemed well aware last week that there will be a third man at the table: the public. Both sides were firing off statements designed to win friends and influence people. United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who had rejected the steelmakers' request that he freeze wages, demanded that the steelmen freeze prices for the life of the new contract, and still give 500,000 steelworkers higher wages and benefits. This would be "justified," McDonald argued, by the industry's heavy profits (see below) and the rising productivity...
Industry knows that it would have a hard job making a price rise stick this year, therefore has stiffened its back to any wage hike that would force one. Washington gossiped that Dave McDonald has already been told privately just what he can get at the bargaining table: a package wage hike in the area of 8?-10? an hour. Some steel officials, though they insist publicly they would have to pass any wage boosts along in prices, privately admit that they could give the union a modest package without a price hike...
...Wallace McDonald, Secretary of the Committee on General Scholarships, revealed that the remainder of the gift was delayed by a "terribly complicated will" which is still in the hands of executors. The portion received by the University last month was in stocks and bonds, the income from which will be used for undergraduate scholarships...
...McDonald refused to say exactly when the remainder is expected because of the indefinite time allotted for clearing up the legalities of the will...