Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Snag. But nothing basic in the dispute has been solved. The four unions -the Machinists, Electricians, Boilermakers and Sheet Metal Workers-have been negotiating fruitlessly with the railroads since December 1968. The talks dragged on through last summer, and an October strike was avoided only when President Nixon, exercising his authority under the 1926 Railway Labor Act, appointed a special mediation panel and ordered a 60-day cooling-off period. For a while, the bargaining seemed productive. Then the unions turned down a settlement offer...
...snag was jurisdictional, not financial. After agreeing that none would accept a settlement unless all did, three of the unions voted last month to accept an industry package that included wage increases of 680 an hour over a two-year period for skilled mechanics. But the 6,000-member Sheet Metal Workers objected to a provision for limited crossing of craft lines to permit incidental work at repair locations by whatever mechanics were available. Generally lower-skilled than members of the other unions, they feared that this rule could further reduce their importance. The union rejected the offer...