Word: mcdonaldization
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Minutes after Steelworkers' President Dave McDonald and U.S. Steel Vice President John A. Stephens flagged an end to the 27-day steel strike one day last week, reporters were called into their negotiating room in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel to hear the news. Said McDonald: no "battle" had been involved in the on-and-off-again negotiations. "This has not been a class struggle. We are just partners who tried to arrive at an understanding...
...Pittsburgh neither union nor management seemed anxious enough for a speedy settlement to make concessions. Federal mediators met with United Steelworkers' Boss David J. McDonald and U.S. Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens, came away saying only that they would "be in touch." The workers themselves seemed unworried. Said one grizzled crane operator: "I guess I can eat and sleep no matter how long the strike lasts...
Hopes for Coal. Dave McDonald's proudest achievement since becoming president is knocking the wage differential from the contracts of southern Steelworkers, who since 1953 have been getting the same pay as northern workers. Another sizable achievement is that, behind the scenes, he had much to do with arranging the tricky merger of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last year. Ahead he has two strong ambitions, 1) to be invited to address the United Mine Workers, and 2) to bring John L. Lewis back to the newly united house of labor...
...McDonald has small regard for the auto workers' Walter Reuther, once described him privately as "that redheaded, socialistic s.o.b." But he has become a good friend and admirer of George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He has no designs on Meany's job, wants only to run his own union according to his own ideas. Even his critics agree that in the years ahead he will run it substantially as 1,200,000 Steelworkers want it run. And probably, in these changing times, better than it has ever been run before...
...Dave McDonald's principal opponent in the steel negotiations: John A. (for Allen) Stephens, 61, vice president in charge of industrial relations for U.S. Steel Corp...