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IUE-CIO. CONTRACT
Night Shift Bonus — ‘
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ARTICLE V
SAME — Here are the ‘
‘clauses: from the two
Contracts showing
identical protection for
GE workers on 2nd and 3rd shifts.
Hl 7. Night Shift Differential 4
Wouking Hoors: Srimoaur Trae Oveirinn #
Hourly rated and salaried employees assigned
to recognized: second and third shift operations B
ve 106, added to their regularly deter:
To Win The Gains We Are Demanding
We Must Be United With Other GE Workers
UE CONTRACT
' Article V
WORKING HOURS: ..
STRAIGHT TIME—OVERTIME
17. Night Shift Differential
Hourly rated. and salaried employees: assigned: to
recognized second and third. shift operations. shall
; er ot ial, ellie ER et tN iS SS Fie wan, i
Prece Prices
ployces
(a) Piece prices are classified as standard,
temporary-or special and all piccework vouchers
will indicate the classification, :
“(yA Standard Piece Prive is one set where ia
the manufacturing method has become fe
established. * :
A Temporary Piece Price is one sel. where
‘development or has been changed, or
: : ie
not yet attained normal performance. 1
A Special Piece Price is one set on work
Which usually repeats infrequently or is
~in-small quantities. or has some special
feature or purpose.
(b) There, will be no change in a standard sR
ices wi
. f quickly as possi
the manufacturing “method is under Ube set on jobs w
z : ; facturing me
the average pieceworker on the job has ¥. gBaror has atla
i The Company agrees tom
temporary price:
thod h ov
ined average efficiency.
ace existing :
(ec) Special prices wi
tities are small and jobs do not repeat Nel
will be no change in stanc
nee in methodsis, maces.
ORT Lo ARE EI charg PRL NTS AT ra
have'l0% added to their regularly determined earn-
ings for all work parlomnes on such shifts, aa
UE CONTRACT
ah oH a
Piece Prices—Hourly Rated Piecework
Employees
. (a) Piece pr
38 special. or standard, and
B the classification.
; 5 rary price : as
oy sor emibte Ordinarily, standard prices will ff
ithin six months where the manu-
Il be classified as temporary,
all vouchers will indicat
s Will be-set on. new jobs as Full protection for piece-- rk 4
prices is accorded by IU. .O
as been developed’ and the oper: §
ake every effort to re-
5 with standard prices. F
I be apptied only when quan- &
at very oflen. .
ard prices 4f
re in_method.
the price may De f
such’ cha
adjusted. However, such
Adjustment shall be limite
rice. except where There is a change in manu @%
affected by the changé.
aay ‘ . 7}
acluring me , a: to those parts of the job
Where such a change in manufacturing method §
is made, the price. may _be adjusted. However, Bo”
stich adjustment shall be Tinted to those parts 8p
of the job affected By The change. : ott
Here is the sec-
tion of the IUE-
CIO Agreement
with GE assuring
all retired GE
_ workers of pen-
sion payments of
$125 a = month
($1,500 year)
and protection
identical with
that presently
enjoyed,
The other clauses of the IUE-ClO Contract provide the
same benefits or protection for Vacations . . . Holidays . . .
Continuity of Service Credits . . . Grievance Procedure . . .
etc, .
But thé Contract, in itself, does not automatically
assure anything, as the outsiders would-make us-believe. . Just -
So there can be no “‘loss'' of anything. There can only be gains. And those gains will be like the ones of 1946,
employee retiring on ‘his no :
of credited service as a full-time employes shall be %1,500 per yoar.
itself.and.there.would-never.be.a. dispute or.a.question.
rmal retirement date ond having 25 or more years if
as important is the application of the Contract, the enforeé-
ment of the Contract in the shop by the Stewards and Board
Members. If what the outsiders say were true, we would never
need a Steward of a Board Member or an Officer or even a.
Union. If what they say were true, the Contract would enforce
'47, '48 when our wage increases ran | 3!/2¢ and 18!/2# an hour, and when we won Holidays, and Vacations and
all our other great gains.
Only this time we will be winning Improved Pensions and Insurance . . . Additional Vacations .. « Extra
Holidays . . . and the Job Security that is needed to protect our jobs and end the run-aways. To win them we
need the strength of 100,000 GE workers. We will have that strength in IUE-CIO.
Vote
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June 23, 1954
On behalf of 80,000 GE workers
in IUE-CIO, John Callahan, Chair-:
}e Board, sent Local 301 mem-
“wits. a "Message of Greetings"
upon Iéarning of the NLRB's order
for an election at Schenectady.
“GE workers all across the
country,”' he wrote, “welcome
the news of the Election Order.
“Because the election will
be over by July, we willbe
able to mobilize the strength
of 100,000 GE workers against
the company in negotiations
this year. This is good news for
every GE local, for Boulware
has been taking advantage
of the UE stall in Schenectady
by refusing to bargain in good
faith with IUE-CIO negotia-
tors.
"We who know this guy Boul-
ware for the Union-hater that he
is, know that he will continue to
wring every drop.of advantage
that he can out of the stall.
"But the end of Boulware's 'bar-
gaining by ultimatum" is now in
sight.
“For when Schenectady GE
. of the IUE-CIO GE Confer.
workers pile up an over- &
whelming vote for IUE-CIO, it
qc) sérve notice on Boulware —
tat they are fed up with his §
antics.
‘I feel confident that when
that happens we will be in a
strong position to enforce our
demands for a- substantial
wage increase, plus major im-
“provements in vacations, holi- °
days, pensions, and a clause
guaranteeing women workers
equal pay with men, plus *
other Contract benefits.
“I know that ! speak for all
-GE-workers.when I say, -Wel-. 3 -
come to IUE-CIO. gE
Addition of Dallas, Texas Plant
Unites 57 GE Locals in IUE-CIO |
On June 2 another GE plant voted unanimously to unite with 100,000 _. |
other GE workers in IUE-CIO. The plant is in Dallas, Texas,aGElocation |
covering two buildings employing more than 250 people.
. The biggest of the two shops
does aircraft repair work cn. the
Air Force's B-36. The other is an
Appliance Service Shop.
This new addition to the
ever-growing ranks of IUE-CIO
was made possible through
the cooperation of CIO Unions
—a perfect example of the
benefits of real, organic unity.
The Dallas GE workers had
formerly been represented . by
UAW.CIO.
But in keeping with CIO's policy
of uniting all workers in one’ Union
according to industry, the Dallas
workers became part of the IUE-
Aa
Hrdeve
TS. dl he
The NERS has ordered an
in the Newark Lamp Wor
HUE-CIO's petition,
Yhe Conference is set for
work out the election dave,
fhe conduct of the vote,
CIO, which represents practically
all Unionized GE workers today:
The Dallas workers were
members. of UAW-CIO Local
119. At their regular member-
ship meeting on June 2 they
voted unanimously in favor of
joining the 100,000 other GE
workers in 1UE-C1O.
On June 4 they petitioned for
an election.
A few days later an NLRB Con.
ference was held and a Consent
Election was agreed on. The elec.
tion is set for today, June 23 and
the outcome is a foregone conclu-
sion.
Sy ey
a Al Newark OF
electicn among GE workers
ks, Yhe order is based on
tomarrow, Jung 24. At that
Hime the NLRB, GE, UE and 1UE-ClO are scheduled to
along with ather details for
Presently the Newark Works emolays about 1,000
é * r 4 4
people
f was formerly ME Local 429,
The Hear-hy Bloomfield GE plant, Formerly UE Local
422, disaffiliated fromy UE
and voted to join IUE-CIO -
vfollowing the March 15 vote here in Schenectady.
Bloamfield GE workers have also -petitioned for an
election and are awaiting their Order so they, too, can.
be united with 100,000 GE workers in this year's ne-
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The Dallas GE workers Rave
been chartered as IUE-CIO Local
788, —
This brings to 13 the number of
GE plants that have joined |UE-
ClO in the past year alone. They
are:
Dallas, Tex.
Louisville, Ky,
Linton, Ind.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Cambridge, Mass.
Cleveland, O.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Montreal, Quebec
Quebec City, Quebec
Schenectady, N, Y.
Bloomfield, N. J.
Newark, N. J.”
» Long Island City, N. Y.
IVE-CIO passed the 100,000-
mark in the GE chain last March
when Schenectady, Bloomfield and
Long Island voted to unite their
ranks with IUE-ClO,
UE's membership: dropped ac-
cordingly.
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OVmONOUSon—
at
on
Today UE’s membership in
the GE chain is actually less
than Local 301’s membership
alone. With the exception of
Erie, UE’s representation. in. GE...
is limited to small production
or service and supply shops.
And _ most of those have al-
ready indicated that they
want, to follow the lead of
Schenectady and unite the en.
‘tire GE chain in one big Union
we UE CIO.
WITH 57 LOCALS,
IUE-CIO NOM
REPRESENTS MORE THAN FIVE TIMES
AS MANY GE WORKERS AS NATIO!
LUE
On old. Union saying is that “You are just as strong
as your numbers.”
That is what “strength” boils down to. A Union is just
as strong as the number of people it represents.
A numerical comparison of (UE-CIO with UE shows
that today the National UE is hopelessly weak. Its‘total
membership now is less than the membership of Local
301.
This means that UE’s membership is less than 20,000.
Excep? for Erie, the handful of plants still in UE are
mostly small units doing glass work, service or repair
work, or production on a small scale.
The Erie Workers petitioned to get out of UE and unite
with GE workers in IUE-CIO shortly after we made the.
break here in Schenectady.
The fact that UE today represents less than 20,000 GE
workers proves that it is no factor in negotiations. It
can’t enforce its demands simply because it does not
have the strength.
And that is: what is so phony about UE's cry for:
“unity”.
There can be no “unity” in UE. There is no “unity” in
that outfit because practically: every GE local has left
UE and joined IUE-CIO. It is only a matter of time be-
fore UE is done completely and all workers are again
united wna the ranks of CIO.
Here is the list of GE locals represented by: IE clo.
This is a unity that is real:
1. Alameda, Calif.
2. Anniston, Alabama
3. Auburn, New York
4, Bridgeport, Conn.
Bridgeville, Pa.
Bucyrus, Ohio
» Cambridge, Mass.
Charleston, W. Va.
Cleveland, Ohio
Clifton, N. J.
Coburg, Ontario
Dallas, Tex.
DeKalb, Illinois
Euclid, Ohio
‘Everett, Mass.
Fitchburg, Mass.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Holyoke, Mass.
Huntingburg, Ind.
Irvington, N. J.
Johnstown, Pa.
Lachine, Quebec
Linton, Ind.
(2 Locals) \y ‘Long Beach, Calif.
Long Island City, N. Y.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Louisville, Ky.
Lynn, Mass.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Montreal, Que.
New Kensington, Pa.
Newark, N. J.
New York, N. Y.
Oakland, Calif.
Oakville, Ontario
Peterborough, Ontario
. Philadelphia, Pa. .
(2 Locals) .
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Pittsfield, Mass.
(2 Locals)
Providence, R. |.
Quebec City, Quebec
Schenectady, N. Y.
(Main Plant)
Schenectady, N. Y.
‘(Knolls 2)
Schenectady, N. Y.
(Maqua)
Seattle, Wash.
Springfield, N. J.
Syracuse, N. Y.
Tell City, Ind.
Toronto, Ontario
Trenton, N. J.
Wabash, Ind.
Warren, Ohio
‘Waterford, N.Y.
Youngstown, Ohio
:
‘DF LOCAL 301 TO THE RANKS.
Throughout: the past week messages of Welcome and Coabrenlany
tions have poured into the Local 301 Headquarters from GE locals all
over the country. These messages declare the sentiments of GE workers’
in IVE-CIO to, Schenectady GE workers. Reprinted here and on the
back page are excerpts of a few of these messages.
DAVE FITZMAURICE, PRESIDENT LOCAL 707, REPRESENTING
CLEVELAND GE WORKERS — "For four years now Cleveland
“GE workers have been striving to bring about unity in the GE
chain. An election in Schenectady means that actual unity is now
in’ sight. After your election is held and
you pile up a huge majority for IUE-CIO,
we can go forward together in negotiations
to make the General. Electric Company
give: us the wage increases and contract
improvements we are demanding. We in
Cleveland are particularly interested in
winning a clause in our Contract that will.
nail down our demand for Equal Pay For
Equal Work. The UE has never been able to do anything to win
this demand nationally. With the strength of 100,000 GE workers
behind us, we should be successful in mmahing F Boulware come across
on this demand., Welcome. onek to Clo.’ "
; \MEDEE DEROY, PRESIDENT LocaL 264, REPRESENTING GE
ORKERS IN HOLYOKE, MASS. — "Holyoke workers welcome
the announcement of an election in Sche-
_ nectady and the chance to return to ClO
of the biggest plant in the GE chain. There
is no substitute for actual organic unity of
all. GE workers in one Union. Your election
‘will signal the end of UE in GE, for once
Schenectady is united with 80,000 other
, GE workers in JUE-CIO it will only be a
‘im, Matter of time before the other remaining
1 UE locals in GE follow your lead and also
become a part of our Union. If werall move fast, we will still be
able to organize the strength of 100,000 GE workers in this year ‘5 -
negotiations, and that should permit us to win the demands we
are making for Contract Improvements and greater Job Security."
TOM HAYDEN, PRESIDENT LOCAL 901, REPRESENTING FORT
WAYNE, IND., GE WORKERS — "An election in Schenectady
is good news. [+t means. the chance to unite 100,000 GE workers
at the Bargaining Table. Because Fort Wayne was one of the -
' GE plants — along with Schenectady — to
sign the. first National: Contract with the
General Electric Company, we know what
this Unity can mean. Just. as it: meant vast
improvements in 1937, it will mean ‘the
same improvements today. Particularly we
are looking forward to. winning the im-
provements in Pensions, Holidays, Vaca-
tions, Insurance and Job Security that we
are ‘demanding. | am.-waiting for the day after your election
when together we sit down to bergain together with Boulware
in New York City. That will be a memorable day for GE workers."
y UE GETS (BieseR |
BIGGER
RAISES!
BIGGER. |
PENSIONS!
LET'S. HAVE A
CLOSER LOOK?
ao
ORKERS FROM COAST
“ANNOUNCEMENT OF
SILL EMERY, PRESIDENT LOCAL 201, REPRESENTING 16,000
LYNN GE WORKERS — "After your election is held, the seven
big GE plants of Schenectady, Lynn, Pittsfield, Fort Wayne, Phila-
delphia, Syracuse and Louisville will be welded together in a united
front that Boulware will not be able to ;
cache
mere
of the Union that represents: practically all GE workers. When
that day comes, we can’ go forward together. to win the demands .
we have made in, negotiations."
SPATE
shove around, Lynn GE workers welcome
this chance to unite our ranks for we know
it can bring about a return to the kind of
negotiating we did back in 1946, 1947 and
1948 when we won. wage increases of bet-
ter than |13¢ and 18c an hour’ in single
years, plus major Contract gains such as six
paid holidays, paid vacations, Seniority | .
benefits, and other Contract improvements. Today our needs are
for improvements in Pensions, Insurance, Vacations, Holidays, and
a greater degree of Job Security. The General Electric Company
has these obligations to its, employees and | feel confident that
we can do much to win these demands in negotiations after your
election in Schenectady."
JAMES LAWALIN, PRESIDENT LOCAL 805, REPRESENTING
GE TUBE WORKERS IN TELL CITY; IND. — "The announcement
of an election in Schenectady should’ lead to complete unity of
: gp all GE workers once’ again. Indiana is a
good example of the weakness of UE. To-
day the only thing UE represents in the GE
chain in this state is a small plant in
Decatur, Oncé Schenectady is part -of
IUE-CIO there will be no logical reason
why: Decatur GE workers should remain
isolated in UE. In fact, they will probably
follow Bloomfield, Newark, Long Island:
ED HOUCHINS, PRESIDENT LOCAL 119, REPRESENTING
PHILADELPHIA GE WORKERS -— ''An election in Schenectady .
will enable us to mobilize the strength of [00,000 GE workers in
front of the company in this year's negotiations, That unity should .
ermit.us to win the improvements we are it re 3
jag. It was obvious to everyone that
E could never hope to win these gains,
ew of the fact that it is so weak, so dis-
united and so much on the defensive every-
where. Philadelphia has seen an excellent
example of ‘the power of unity in :recent
weeks. Here IUE-CIO members were ne-
gotiating with Philco. Not only. did Philco cA
refuse to meet the demands of IUE-CIO, it actually wanted to
take away gains from the Pension Plan the members -had won-in
the past. But because the Philco workers were united’ 100% in
IVE-CIO, a militant strike struggle by IUE-CIO not only succeed
in stopping the Pension-cutting scheme of the Company, it also
won a wage increase of from 4c to 9c an hour, plus other improve-
ments in the Contract, IUE-CIO's Philco Pension Plan is now: one
of the best in the country. | feel confident that unity of GE workers
Pesce rnc ee
The outsiders from’ National UE are trying, fo take credit forthe gains we have made here
in Schenectady Local 307. These outsiders are irying to. take fhe credit in spite of the ob-
vious fact that practically all of them were never hore in Schenectady before March,
It is obvious that they did nothing to win our gains, What we have today is the result of 17 years
City and others and act to become a part
on the job here in Schenectady by the Officers, Executive Board and Membarship of Local 301. We
can pay off the same way once the Schenectady election is over." ;
: won these gains here by fighting it out with the company day-in-day-out.
“The National UE had nothing to de with winning our gains, Proof of this is the fact that
in none of the other locals does UE‘have rates or conditions as good as what we have today.
In fact, practically ail UE locals are much worse off. That is why GE is farming out work of jobs
in Bldg. 269. to the UE plant in Scranton where it can get the same work. done for rates 40¢
and 50¢ an hour under what we are paid here in Schenectady.
If we had to wait on the National UE for our conditions we would never have what we have
today. It was Local.301 that did the job and that is why Schenectady GE workers are overwhelmingly
behind the move of Local 301 to unite our ranks with 80,000 GE workers in IVE-CIO so with the
strength of 100,000 GE workers behind us we can continue to forge ahead and win steady advances.
“in our wages, our conditions and our job security, ;
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mal iT “ay = Gans DD Sacprir : _* WAGES sme Doubied and Even Trebled
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CONDITIONS = Improved a Thousand Percent
| JOB SECURITY ce Greatest in the Entire UE
STANDARD OF. LIVING os The Highest In History .
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Our Local 301 Record of Gains . . Toolmaker Rates aised from
For Toolmakers and Skilled Crafts |» 1.05 ee ne ey Local 301
Is Un-Matchea by UE Anywhere! e is the record of Local 301’s gains for Toolmak-
ers, which j is typical of the militant advancement: of
In the 17 years Local 3 | has baer on the jeb in Schenectady GE. wages in GE by Local 301 — a record un-equalled by
workers have benefited by fa for more than GE workers in any UE plant. This : tee ly : : a
record of gains ‘is something that UE always tried to copy and obtain in its we Cue Wheres
other locals. But it never succeeded. ;
7 Our plant-wide seniority was the first important gain UE tried to copy
in-all of its other locals. A few of thern won what we have, but most of
them are still frying to get ik:
But in.wages our record is the thost outstanding of all. The record of
Local 301 accomplishment for Toolmakers is a good example. This record
goes for all other classifications as well... Electricians . .. Painters...
Tinsmiths ... . Structural Steelworkers . . . Rtagdis wee a Machinists .. . Mill
rights... Welders .. . and on down the line.
This was the year we won Automatic Progression which gave us Automatic advancement to the job
rate, instead: of on the company basis of ' ‘merit advancement. Then the Job Rate was advanced: to
$1.80 an hour.
193 vA There were 23 separate rates for Toolmakers. Local 301 reduced
that number to seven the first year we were organized.
IGA? Local 301 won Automatic Progression. It was a full five years
later — 1952 — before UE won this for its locals. .
1937 =1 954 Thousands of special increases and advance-
ments covering workers on every job in the.
plant. These extra increases are un-heard of in
TOTAL RAISES.......$1.31 an hour
(Actually the raises amounted to considerably more. For today, the top rate goes
automatically to all Class "AN We while i in 1937 only. a few select people received
the top rate.)
