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...insurance benefits. The proposal also contained a set of rules under which the company could make time studies of workers. All this was fine with the union, but Carey objected that the mediators' plan did not provide for arbitration on possible pay cuts for employees shifted from piecework to hourly pay; some, he said, stood to lose 37? an hour. He also objected to the suggestion that of 93 strikers fired for alleged picket-line violence, 57 be rehired and the other cases submitted to arbitration. Carey wanted them all rehired...
...near Paris. Its 3,000 workers were soon building 5,000 Renault automobiles a year. And Louis Renault owned it all. Vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a friend to practically none. To the French working man, Renault became "the ogre of Billancourt." He instituted piecework, maintained an internal intelligence and security system similar to that of Henry Ford (whom he knew and admired), ordered searches of workers' clothing in locker rooms, fired any worker caught with union propaganda...
...Piecework. In Eagle Pass, Texas, the News Guide carried a classified ad: "WANTED AT ONCE-Am desperate account of continued livestock thefts. Need watchman that can shoot. Will pay by hour or by head...
Instead of the old piecework system, Olivetti has introduced a faster, less tire some production-line process. His workers have a time-incentive program which boosted production 62%, wages 30% dur ing the first year of operation. Further more, when Olivetti decided to build a new plant in 1950, he built it in Pozzuoli near Naples because he felt that the creation of jobs in the depressed south was more important than the economic ad vantage of locating it near his main plant...
Next morning the notice had gone, and another was in its place: "Workers needed immediately." Another sign promised that the plant would henceforth operate full scale and that workers would be paid for overtime and piecework. Haughty Don Elisardo took back the 1,400 hungry, silent men in black berets who had dared to strike against him. But he had a triumph anyway: he called them all "new employees." Every striker was penalized by losing his seniority-a man with 40 years' service was hired on the same basis as any young lad just out of school...