Word: mcdonaldization
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...show the boys that he is earning his pay and perquisites, a big-time labor leader has to compete with heads of other unions in thinking up lavish demands to put before management at bargaining time. For the Steelworkers' suave President Dave McDonald, this problem was already worrisome, even though his union's contracts still have a year and a half to run. For one thing, Dave won re-election to the presidency last year by an uncomfortably narrow edge. On top of that, he faces rugged competition from other labor chiefs, e.g., the Teamsters' tough Jimmy...
Eager to top Hoffa, McDonald last week unwrapped a gaudy parcel of his own: three-month vacations for steelworkers every five years, in addition to the regular yearly vacations of from two to three weeks. Striking the statesmanlike stance that union presidents assume when explaining how what is good for their unions is good for the country, McDonald argued that three-month vacations would help ease the "disemployment" caused by increasing automation...
...Steelman McDonald had hardly spoken before the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther topped him. The U.A.W. decided Reuther's executive board this week, will patriotically forget all about its plan for a shorter work week in 1958 negotiations. Instead U.A.W. will couple its new demands for wage increases with a novel program of profit-sharing for wage-earners. And just in case this might not bring him a big enough audience, Reuther was ready to propose (but not "demand") that automakers also share their profits-in the form of rebates-with their customers...
LABOR. The McClellan committee will continue its investigations, moving from the Teamsters Union to Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and on to David McDonald's Steelworkers, winding up with a bill designed to halt abuses by labor leaders that is likely to get wide support in Congress...
...McDonald also announced yesterday that as a result of the recent College Scholarship Service conference in New York, the scholarship officers of the Ivy Schools would hold a discussion session independent of their deans this fall. McDonald said the talks, which he described as "lower level," would consider the problems of scholarship aid keeping up with cost rises and of reducing apparent competitive bidding in the whole Ivy League...