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...Metal Workers' Unions were twelve months old. They were complicated by jurisdictional trouble with C.I.O.'s Marine and Shipbuilding Workers' Union. Only a few hours before his shattering announcement, Andy Higgins had said he would sign a contract with whichever union won an NLRB election. (Insiders said C.I.O. would have won.) What had kept Andy from signing earlier with A.F. of L. was a clause providing that all returning servicemen must join the union...
...repeal the law, heard testimony that by now the National Labor Relations Board had time for nothing except presiding over the strike votes required by the law, that the board could not possibly keep up with new disputes. Strike elections at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler will cost NLRB $100,000 and inestimable time, although their results are foregone conclusions. In the first two weeks of October, 3,900 other requests for strike elections were filed...
...would be a banner month for unions. Meanwhile there are strike votes ahead, already authorized. Workers at 96 General Motors plants are sure to vote an emphatic "Yes" to a strike vote next week; Chrysler employes will do the same. The bustling, powerful United Automobile Workers have already petitioned NLRB for a vote at 51 Ford plants on Nov. 7, and no one thought of anything but a big "Yes" vote there, either...
...Madame Perkins' roomy office in the Labor Department, he had brought the solid backing of Harry Truman, with carte blanche to do what he wanted. Many of the powers that should have been in the Department had long since been given piecemeal to boards & bureaus like WLB and NLRB. Even if labor lay low for a while, the new Secretary would have had plenty of work...
...Plans. C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, which had demanded a 30% wage increase and then authorized locals to take less, temporarily, petitioned NLRB for a strike vote in 96 plants of General Motors Corp. The Board forthwith scheduled the vote for Oct. 24. The strike, certain to be voted by U.A.W.'s membership, would take 325,000 workers off the job in the industry which is the spark plug of postwar prosperity...