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Bieber drove a four-barreled bargain. At one point last week, the 6-ft. 5-in. union chief met with Lee Iacocca in the Chrysler chairman's office in a session complete with desk pounding, raised voices and colorful language. When Bieber finally presented the new three-year contract to his ten-member U.A.W. bargaining committee, the group gave him a round of applause and approved the deal unanimously. U.A.W. leaders predicted that the rank and file would ratify the deal early this week and return promptly to work...
...significant changes in work rules. They wanted to boost productivity by reducing job categories from some 500 to half a dozen, thus requiring employees to perform a wider variety of tasks. The U.A.W. rebuffed that concept, but it acquiesced on another issue. The union agreed to a three-year contract instead of the two-year agreement it had proposed. The U.A.W. had aimed for the shorter term because its Ford and G.M. contracts will expire in 1987, and the union wanted to bargain with all three automakers at once, a strategy that tends to give labor a stronger hand...
...know how much liability coverage he should have. Bruce Williams replies, "I wouldn't walk across the street with less than a mil. Juries are crazy." A caller from Spokane wants advice on borrowing $2,000. Williams grabs a nearby booklet and tots up the interest on a three-year vs. a four-year loan. For a Seattle man, Williams becomes an instant expert on zoning codes; for a listener in Rochester, he's an authority on inheritance taxes. And for a high school student who is uncertain about college, he is a sympathetic uncle: "Kinda overwhelming?" "Yeah...
Russ Togs signed Brinkley to a three-year contract in the hope that she could help them get into the upscale sportswear market, but the effort largely failed. Brinkley blames Russ Togs for not promoting her product after an initial push. Says she: "The Russ Togs management was not equipped to put ideas into action...
...Pope. They have no authority of their own to pass church laws. Since the council, seven synods have been held to discuss such specific topics as the role of the Christian family and the sacrament of penance. Next week's synod, however, is an "extraordinary" meeting, outside the regular three-year cycle. There will be 165 delegates, 102 of whom are presidents of national bishops' conferences. Other participants: 14 Eastern Rite prelates, 25 Vatican officials and three superiors of men's orders. Also present for the first time: non-Catholic observers...