Word: warehousemen
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lost through automation. If machines displace enough of them to cut the work week below 35 hours, the fund will make up the difference. The fund will also finance early retirement for longshoremen as the needed work force shrinks. In return, Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union gave the employers a free hand to eliminate featherbedding and increase efficiency on the docks. The employers will now be able to determine for themselves how many longshore gangs are needed, the weight of slingloads of cargo, and the number of times cargo will be handled...
...Labeling Jack Kennedy a "political chameleon," the militant, outsized (membership: 23,000) Warehousemen's Union issued a call for the support of Richard Nixon, "the lesser evil...
...planters' hold was further loosened in 1945-46, when the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union organized the plantations and mills and conducted a successful 79-day strike. There was a four-month strike in 1958, and today Hawaiian growers pay the highest annual wage scale in the sugar world ($15.63 a day v. $3.80 in Puerto Rico). But there is a compensation: the union cooperates to eliminate unnecessary jobs through early retirement and even repatriation of late-arriving Filipino immigrants. Result: the Hawaiian sugar industry is close to being automated. Only 13,000 production workers...