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ELECTRICAL.
UNION NEWS _
“June 30, 1950
Negro Rights Report
Approved by UE:301 -
‘The, report- of . Shop’ Steward
Rohert Wimb rly al Building
on. thé National “Trade Union
Sonference for, Negro’ Rights a
Chicago, June 10’ahd 11, was un:
animously approved by the 301.
membership meeting: last week.
The meeting also: approved: the ©
action of the Shop Stewards’ Coun-
cil in sending Brother: Wimber' ly as
a delegate to the conference,
The conference was called, for
the purpose of ! “putting a stop -to
the employers ‘efforts to remove: ,
‘the aNegro people from industry,”
Brother Wimberly reported. ,
He ‘suid he was happy ‘to’ learn
that Local 801 is rated-“very: close»
to the ‘top as far as fighting to"
break. down: the barriérs that aie”
between’ the Negro and the better
jobs." 3
The percentage, of. “uneniployed
Negro workers
country isemuch high@r than an
employed white workers, he: point .
cd out, and Negroes have less
chance of getting. skilled Jobs. This
a dangerous situation, he declar-
; Not only’ for the Negro: worker
“but for the white worker -as Well,
“because the employer will use the
Negro ‘as a means: to: lower the
“wage scale of all labor, both Negro
and white.”
The conférence adopted a pro-
- gram ‘calling*far:
. Breaking down . the diserimina-
Anti-Disel imination
Committee Appointed
The UE 801 Executive: Board
Monday night named ‘the fol-
lowing Anti-Diseri mination
P Committee: Board Member
Floyd Thomas; Shop Steward
Sadie Tovinella of Building 81,
Arthur Owens of Bldg. 278,
Board Member Helen’ Quirini; |°
Board Member Larry Gebo, | °
Board:, Member “Rossiter Light-
“Bhop Steward - Michael
Rakvica of Bldg. 52 and Board
Member Walter Kniffen.
tion against Negroes in hiring and
in promoting dnd upgrading.
A continuing campaign to enact”
a national Pair Employment Prac.
tices Commission (FEPC) law.
Making use of state MIEPC laws
to open up job’ opportunities for
Negroes, *
Support of court actions to pro-
tect the Job,and seniority rights of
“No Date Is Set Yet
Seaton Night Par
tliraughout - the-
—a 1 Good ray. to Spend a Summer Evening ©
52, 60, 64 and: 66 at their'section night part:
at 201 hall list week!’
For Toolmakers! Vote ©
» The National Labor Relations =
Board was supposedly ‘SUIT eon-
sidering protests’ filed over! elec-
tions at a number of GEV plants, —
including Schenectady, when. this.
week’s HU News went to press.
The delay in acting on the pro-
tests is holding up the Board's
decision oi ‘the date for the runcoff
election for toolmukets: in Sche-
nectady.
QE is using the fact that UE
hasn’t ‘yet. been certified here to
claim that-it cannot recognize UE
shop’ slewards .exeept, on the in-
_ dividual’ word, of the worker in-
Valved—it
evlevance, .
cluded his following recommenda-
tions to UE 801:°, ;
That the union press for an anus
‘discrimination clause in the .GE
vontmel; (This is being done),
That-UE 301 urge town, city and
county governing bodies to enuct
local FEPC acts,
That's01 cooperate in the estab-
Ushment. of a labor council for
Negro rights inthe Capital Dis-*
trict.
That an. effective, functioning 801
Anti-Diserimination Cammitteo’ be
established, The 301° membership,
-tanlic the -meeting,--voted-~
establish such a committee.” /,
r .
~ MBA Will Continue
Disability Payments
As’ a result of Widespread pro-~
losts by “workers throughout the
plant, backed’ by official action of
UE 301, the Mutual"Benefit Assdet-
ation on Monday, dropped its: plan
to climinate disability: benefits, It
‘decided to continue these benefits
pending neyotiations of the nations
al UB" contract. Suspension of
MBA dues. Wilt continue,
For the present, starting July 1,
when the company'sé new plan uns
der the state disability benefits
law goes into effeet, a worker dan
be eligible to both MBA disability
payments: and the payments under
the GH plan. .
“In accordance with inadruetior
of the UR. gor membership” neat:
ing, 801 officers met Thursday of
lust week. with GE representatives
to make objections to bad features
of the GR plan, 801. spokesmen
were Vice-President Joseph Man-
vino, Chief Shop Steward James
Cognetta, Treasurer Honry.Kamin-
sky, and Vietor Pasehe, assistant to”
the business agent. Heprasentiog
the company were | Gi Stevens,
assistant to” the ane manager,
und. RO, Schetmerhorn, assisle
ant supervisor of eimenncly
“workmen's
vget disability pay.
compensation
Stevens and
Schermerhorn admitted that this
limitation exists. But they said that
since the GE plan is a temporary
ane, to be superseded’ “by whatever _
is worked out in national UR nego-
tiations, tio change will be made.
The union pointed out that dis- “
ability pay may be.cut us much as
$5 a week if woekly doctor's ver.
'tificates are required. Schermer-
horn said he belleves there is‘ no
danger that the Metropolitan Life’
Insurance Company, which is hand-
ling the GE plan, would insist on
weekly cor tifeates,
The action sate Pout days lite
ting worknen" 8 einipendd ution will:
slill get MBA disability pay,
v
Pensi oners' Meeting...
A report on contract negotiations
will be made to the meeting ofthe
UE 301 Pension Organization “at
2 pam, Thursday, July 6, at the®
sunion hall,
There will be an en-
tertainment program also, >
He Means Speed-un
Charles I, Wilson, GE president,
told the Apvil, ' 1950, stockholders"
meeting that the company’s record
profit was. due to. the “more effec.
live utilization: of: aur human re-
SOUreGE! "TAY S atiotlier “way
say speed-up‘ of employees. '
Joint Meeting to: Hear.
Negotiations Report —
Contract negotiations. will be
the“ chief subject: of ‘the «joint
shop stewards’ and membership
meeting of UE 301 ‘next Tucs-
day, July 11, at, the'union hall.
_. Second. shift. stewards’ and
| members. will-meet..after work |
"Monday night: July 10 (12:45
am, Tuesday, July 11). ©
Virst: and fthird shift ‘stew-
ards and: members will meet at
7:30 p.m. ‘Tuesday, July 11,
cAll members attending will be
required .to. show. their—dues
_hine—plant.in the Westinghouse *
books with stamps showing they
sare in good:standing, 7
cannot.
‘Miore. UE Victories _
n NLRB Elections
UE rolled‘up: four more victories
over IUE recently in NLRB elec-
tions, to increase its steadily grow-
ing record of successful votes,
By more than a four to:one vote,
UE won at Allen Bradley Com-
“pany, Milwaukee, :Wis. - The vote
was 1,424 for UE and 816 for IUE.
At Sonotone Company, White
Plains, N. Y., UE polled 285 and
IUE, 221.
At Anaconda Wire -and Cable
Company, Hastings-on-Hudson, .N.
Y., UE received 283 and IUE, 247,
“At Atwood and Morrill Com-
pany, Salem, Mass., the vote was_
67.for UE and 4 for IUE: ee
The -early election victories. of
IUE were. achieved=-with.-the...co
operation of the NLRB in picking
spots where IUE was already en-
trenched and where its disruption
was effective. The NLRB rushed
. some elections and delayed others
to assist JUE, .
But as UE predicted, IUE shot
full strength toward the start
i has been steadily losing since “
ang os
‘General Pay Raise
“A general pay raise of. 6%
an “hour, ret
was won by UB at Anchor Cap and
Closure _ Corporation, Toronto,
. tions.
‘Strike at Essington.
The entive big. Turbine works, of
Westinghouse at: Essington (South
Philadelphia) was: stil] shut. down |
by a strike of UE Local 107 when,
this week's EU News went.to press
Wednesday. It is the only Tur-
chain, * a
‘The workers walked out. June 29.
over the company’s attempt to de-
. stroy the grievance procedure and
limit the activities of the UB shop
stewards, On Wednesday negotia-
tionS were ‘still in progress be-
tween Local 107. and management
fora local supplement to the na-
‘tional Westinghouse contract, Un--
der —the —Westinghouse’ practive
local -supplements. can be=worked
‘out to govern the local.application
of. the general. grievance proce- -
dures and the general lay-off and :
seniority provisions and some other
‘ matters,
Westinghouse Backs Down “
Westinghouse at first tried, to.
seize on the Essington strike to
call off national contract negotia-
Westinghouse -cancelled the con-
tract sessions scheduled for July
6 and 7. UB at: once protested this
direct violation. of the law, the
company’s.
the- certified agent, Westinghouse
backed down and contract negotia-
were to be resumed yesterday
(Thursday). in New York City.
When. the contract ‘negotiations -.
began in June, for Westinghouse
plants.-won- by -UE,. the company
proposed scrapping the shop stew. :
ard system and having’ a shop
plant committee of three. mem-
bers at each plant, In: exchange
for this it offered the check-off of
union ‘dues. .
UE Plants Resist :
UE at once. attacked: the propo-
“sal as an_ effort. to. cripple the
union. The workers in. UL. shops
resisted: when the°company tried to
put-the system into effect, ©
plants to rank-and-file workers at
_TUE-plants, and. the workers there”
also started to: resist the com-.
pany move, - Slowdowns developed
Cash Prizes
> Awarding of cash. prizes to"
UE. 301 members will start: next
Tuesday. night, July 11, -at the
combined’ membership’ and shop
stewards’ meeting at-the union
hall, . # ft
To -be: eligible for a prize af
=that~tine;-a-member “must be-
credited:on the 801. office: rec-
ords with payment. of his June
‘dues, It: is important therefore
that shop stewards iminediately
turn in June dues collected. A
member does not have to be
present. when: the drawing by
lot takes place to be eligible.
The first prize will “be $50; I
second prize, $25; third prize,
$15, stn fourth prize, $10; :
‘ards in
- English and Grant Moore, They
The day. of the walk-out’
refusal to bargain with ,
Mave Against Stewards
Protested by Workers
The company gave lay-off’ no-
tices last week to two shop stew-
Building 28, Margaret
were to be’ bumped on-'their jobs,
GE said, because UE 301 hus not
been certified yet here and the
company doesn’t recognize UE
stewards “as such, pending certifi-
cation,
Shop stewards: in Buildings 10C
and 24, as well as” stewards in
Bldg. 28, took groups with them to
their foremen to ‘protest aguinst
laying ‘oft the two stewards. Peti-
tions of protest were ‘also. signed
in the shops, .
The union office, in-a letter to
A. C. Stevens, assistant to: the
works manager, protested that the
removal of the two stewards would
leave their groups without elected -°
‘representatives,
at the Springfield, Mass.,’ and
Bloomfield, -N. J., TUE: plants, .
“Westinghouse yielded on the is-
“sue generally at UE plants, but
recently brought the issue to a
show-down at. Essington, The
ompany..has-.not. backed..down- -in---
he IUE shops.
Have You Paid ' “Your UR- B01”
Dues?
Rateecume:
‘Next Monday
UE sista ‘nego iators ‘will | be- ”
gin Monday the job_o trying to
"convince the General Blectrie Com-
pany peacefully that it will have
to ‘improve its offer on economic -
issués.and drop its plan to destroy,
* major parts of the old. contract.
Bargaining sessions, recessed“fur .
this week because ofthe holiday, .
have been scheduled for: Monday,
Tuesday. and Wednesday of ‘neat
week, .
~~ Seniority and Lay-off
On Thursday of “last week
- George Pfeil, head’ company nego-
tiatcr, completed’ giving’ the “UE
committee the company’s idea of
changed contract’ language... It’
‘Was as- summarized in last Fri-’
day’s. issue of this’ paper, except
that. Pfeif yefrained from putting
in writing all that said he wanted’
in the way of whittling down and
narrowing down the application of
seniority. Evidently the strong re-
sentment voiced in the plants
caused a ‘change. in company tac-
ties. on this one point,
Instead of writing out his pro-
posal to require a laid-off worker
to take a job three steps lower in.
his own division before bumping
outside the division,’ Pfeif . pro-
posed a clause providing for local
negotiation of lay-off -procedire
under the national contract, provi-
sion. Apparently GE feels that
through local negotiation in somnie
plants it will be-able to whittle
(Continued on ‘page two)
-Jandreau Radio Talk.
On GE Negotiations
Business Agent Leo Jandreau
will diseuss the GE contract
negotiations. in..a..radio..broad-.
cast from. 5:30 to ‘B:d5 p. m,;
Monday, . July , 10; over WPTR,
Albany,
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to o8
July 7, 1950
Under ths heading “What, GE. Offers ‘to UE,” last Friday's Elec-
‘trical Union - ‘News gave a factual summary of the company’s offer on
economic issues.- The following is an analysis of what.that offer means
in terms, of: many and in terms, of the workers’ present, problenis.
‘The 3 percent wage offer ranges. irem 4 cents to about! 6 cones an
« hour.” This is extremely small’ in view ‘of two major facts: (1) that pr‘o-
duction’ per worker has gone up so much’ that GE, made new record- .
breaking profits in both 1949 and-1950 on a much smaller number ‘of
workers; (2) that. through IUE disruption GE was able to avoid. one
cent of increased wage costs in 1949. ‘ ‘
i In the light of these facts the UE’s proposal foréa
raise and: horter work week with. 40 hours’ pay is a very reasonable
proposal, ‘The ‘company Shas made no proposal on. the, shorter work
week. It refuses to work out the correction of women’s cael skilled
craft rates, and geographical differentials. ;
GE refuses to agree to a Hrovailon against discrimination in 1 employ:
tins enipioyees,
On other “Fuses, such as mentintiet § piece work, holidays, grievance «
»Procedure, transfers, ete., on which UE: seeks improvements, GE has
: proposed on the contrary to ‘weaken: all these clauses, some very: seri+
“ones And it would freeze everyeping other than wages for'five years. ~
_ Pension and Insurance” Proposals
The pension and-insurance-of fer— would 7 improve the present plans.
But the benefits are inadequate; the plans. would be ¢ controlled completely ~
by the company, and the-plans would require substantial payments. by.”
the workers...” Ug 2
The following would be: the monthly eost of the proposed’ pension
and insuranee’ plans to workers earning $3, 000 and $4,000 a year
; tetnnteht time) wauneclivelys
~ Workers’ Payments (Monthly)
On $3,000
Annual
‘Earnings. -
$2.30
On $4,000 -
Annual
Earnings
$3.29
2.80.
"1.66
Employee's Insurance costs a ,
Dependents Insurance: Costs (MBA)
Pension Costs sere Teavestbcweas
Total up-to age 55
Added insurance payments after age 55
y
“$18.66
1.80: 2.70
- Total monthly payments after 65 ws... $11,90 $16.36
Generally speaking the cost to the worker would. be lower than at
“present, for'a better’ plan.
considerable. .
‘Cost to the Company
The cost of the insurance plan to the company, on its. claims, is
' probably less than 2% cents an hour.
The cost of the improvements inthe pension plan to the® “company.
should not be more than from 1 cent to 2 cents an hour, and would go
down as workers! contributions accumulate over the years.
Limitations and Trick Clauses -.
The company would haye complete ‘control of: the ci with the |
worker having no right to take any dispute’ up through the union. The.”
i company would have the right to modify the insurance‘as it'sees fit, to
meet requirements of state disability’ laws. Obj viously. thie company
could make arbitrary conditions- depriving’ the dtkers of: benelifs, as it
did on the 9-week .period of the’ 1946 stri °
now vending i in ‘Congress, oe
The actual minimum pension after 25 youd service sera be $100
‘10-cent werietsl!
_prievance.
But the cost’ to the worker=would still ‘be
Union Fights to Save
Job Rights of } Worker»
In violation of his seniority °
rights, a laid-off Building 85 ma<
terial handler who is within: a few.
: months: of being eligible for a pene:
* sion has: been refused -work by’ ‘the
jeneral Electric Company. The
inion is pressing for.a‘job for him”
and for ‘full ~ protection “of -his
R. 0. < Schérmierhorn,
supervisor of personnel, told. the
union recently the! man is “unein-
ployable”. and that there ‘is: conly a
“very, very slim chanée- of him
getting’ back’ to work.”
The conipany has-been hiring
men off the, street for common ‘la-
borer jobs which he could fill,
The union charged there is no
basis: for calling him’ “ynempl
“able’-and stated he cam sti
same work he used to do, or sim-
ilar “work. If the company con-
sidered him “unemployable” at the |
time he was laid off, then it should
have fired him for so-called unsat-
isfactory work, the union pointed
out, and let the case_be fought.as a
Instead the company
tried to evade the lay-off and’ sen-
iority provisions of the contract in
order to. violate his job rights.
The 59-year old worker will be”
eligible’ in November for a pen-
sion and wants to. retire’ then.
When he was laid off in May, 1949,
“for lack ofpwork, he had six and a
half years, of service, The only job -
the company offered him since then
“was washroom. attendant. He turns |
ed this down because of transpor-
tation difficulties. . No (offer has
been made to him for over a year.
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ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND
MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA:
SCHENECTADY GE LOCAL 301
Published: by Editorial Committee
* - (Mary MeCartin, Chairman
Adam Kolasienski, Secretary: ~
Robert Armstrong’ Frank D'Amico
‘Victor Pasche. George Quick’.
George Roode Troy Snipes
© Editorlal Offico
/ ELECTRICAL UNION ‘NEWS:
302 Liberty St., Schenectady,’ N.. ne *
«. .,.. ,Pelephone S-1B86 ;
6
GE Negotiations
(Continued from page one)
down seniority in its actual appli-
cation. ; ,
The proposed clause ‘on lay-offs
(now ine Art. XII) wes: also
‘changed by Pfeif so that.the lan-
guage, taken together with changes
an the transfer’ provision, indicates
that GE. now wants the. right: to
transfer:wvorkers from, one job ta
“another without any,,reason, with-
,out seniority protection, even if
there is no-lack of work. The
changes proposed are techrical and
are not too clear, but would un-
doubtedly open the door to™tamper-
ing with job security, _ -
In its complete forni, the_com-
pany’s position adds up to a wage,
pension and insurance offer HO
is much too low.and is hedged
all kinds of trick clauses, in return
for which GE wants” contract
chariges“which would enable it to
take away from the employees in
the future severaltimes the’ cost
of its present: offer. .
The company’s economic offer
and the changes it wants in the
contract are analyzed in separa Ate
stories in this issue. |
a month, not $125 as announced by the company. :
To qualify: for the
$125 minimum, a worker would have to average: $3, 000 in earnings for
the last 10 years before retirement.
The company announcement’ said that in most cases‘ the life insur-
ance amouitts: to 144 times straight time annual earnings.
case only for earnings of $5, 000 or more.
It vranges down: to as low as
100 per. cént of annual earnings for lower incomes.
There’ are. other trick clauses limiting the usefulness of various .
parts: of the’ sickness and hospitaliziition. benefits.
cluding families, -by the company.
Comparison With Other Plans. . -
In contrast with the heavy. payments* which would be required of
GR workers: for insurance, the ' “Westinghouse Airbrake , plan won by.
UE provides for complete payment of insurance and 1 hospltalifigtion! Dy :
Also, at Westinghouse Airbrake the minimum pension is. realy |
_ $125, and rights in the pension become, vested after 10 years,
-has” improved its vested’ rights: clause, hak it still requires.
“offer
“years? service,
~The GE. offer is better than, the‘Steel ,and ' ‘Auto lens; but the Steel
.---tributions..-
. and Auto plans are better on two specific points?
1. The Steel and Auto pension Plants do not require employes con-
2. In Steel there is a guaranteed minimum disability pension of
$50 a month after 15 years’ service, There is no minimum for disabil-
ity payments in the GE. offer,
This is the ©
“O.
At
July'7,°1950._,
. _ Last -Friday’s issue of this paper gave a factual summary of ‘con-
tract changes proposed by the General Electric, Company-to UE nego-
Cem _The following is-a breakdown of what these changes, submitted
writing by the Cant RADS ajould mean. to GE workers in 1 money: and
OF esti
Piece Work
ompany would, open the door to. ut’ “prices on. the claim. of
change ‘of method, and. would: remove entirely the guarantee. of equal
earnings upon a change of method.
The intent of the change. is..clear—to drive earnings from the
average earning rate established by a piece worker, down to the AER *
or anticipated earned rate. This could mean cutting, piece workers’ earn-
‘ings by 10 cents, 20 cents, or 50- cents an hour, or even more. ©
The company ‘also .wants to limit the payment’ of average earnings ,
So as to-do’away with it under almost any’ ‘condition, and to remove’
wentirely the clause providing for paying waiting time in case of machine
breakdown, faulty, material, long waits,. ete. «
Wage Rates
The company wants the sole right to fix wage rates on Jobs.
-means: that the many workers: whose rates are out of<line ‘could. not
bargain for adjustments. = 4
— The. company further wants to specify that job déserinittots are not
“alle inclusive.’ This is a round-about way of saying that a man can be
-forced to do work outside his classification, The job descriptions would
“become mexningless.
me) Seniority —..
Instead of the old clause making seniority. apply. to “all cases of
layoff or transfer due to lack of work,” the company would limit it to.
“gq veduction in the working force.” At the same time, GE wants ‘to
do away with the provision that every effoft will be made to place
laid-off workers on equal or better jobs. .Apparently the aim of the
changes is to give the company a free hand to transfer an eraployee at
any time for any reason, E
And the company proposes local negotiation of layoff procedures, -
in the hope of weakening seniority. The company has said that it feels
-a worker should take a job three steps lower in his division before bump-
_ ing outside the division. This might mean a 16-cent- wage cut.
Overtime.
While pretending to keep time-and-a-half for Saturday and double
time for’ Sunday, the company proposal opens the way to doing away |
with it, by providing for deciding in local negotiations what hours shall
make up “the work week, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.” In other
words, if a man worked regularly from Friday to Tuesday, the com-
pany would argue that he was not.entitled to overtime pay’on the week- -
end jbecause his Saturday and Sunday ‘are really Wednesday and
Thursday, :-when. he does not:work. e ae.
: The company also asks fora clause that “the company may require
overtime work,” whenever it sees aM
° ° Po, BOM my F
Holidays a et Oo
The. company wants the right: to take” away a worker's holiday pay
sid asks him to worl on a holiday and‘he refuses
Local Understandings
The: company: -wants-a-provision: that-local- -understandings- would: be -~excapt that the
- recognized only: if they ‘ave*put into writing by January 2, 1961;, In
\ ‘Schenectady. UE 801 has a large number of local understandings, some
} of. them of considerable importance,
i - Spears Again Serving: On 301° Executive Board
‘It pto-
poses to take away the union’s ‘right to negotiate changes in rates, This
The proposed new provision would.”
“s ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS
. Swearing in Two New Shop Stewards:
“ Chief Shop’ Steward James Coenetta; ith back thi camera, dministers
-the cath of office to a pair.of new shop stewards at. the UE 301 taal
Jun . Herbert. Acker ‘of Hulls, 28 is. at the left and Shariess J ‘
Renus, Bldg. 13; Tight,
Albert J. Spears, who lias been™
seriously ill, has returned to his
* job at the plant and has resumed
this duties as U®-301 Executive
‘Board=member, for grounds and
‘ buildinigs—workers, ~
Hereafter Spears will act as
Board member for grounds ind
baling _workers throughout the _-
works, excluding milliwrights, rig-
gers and crane repair men. Vin-
eént Palazeke will act as. Board
member‘ for . millwrights, riggers
and-crane repair-men, ‘
During Brothér Spears’ absence
_Shop Steward “Philip Bubb substi-.
“tuted for him as Board member,
cby Yoke of te Bid, 107 stewards,
open the door to destra oying these understandings by failing to reach
agreement on the danguage. 4,
Grievance Procedure a ae
All the above proposals open: the way for the company to take away
some important money. right or protection of the workers, But, the big-
rest: opportunity. for ‘the company to chop down wage standards and
working conditions would come through the changes prepared in the
steward and grievance set-up.
A-contract depends on the shop steward. and grievance ‘fodedure
for its enforcement. -. #4, .
. The company: wants to forbid . all union activities during working
hours, “except such activities.as are necessary for the processing of
grievances.” This would almost cer’ tainly mean only the discussion
of grievances with the foreman, so that an‘individual worker would have
to discuss his problems with the steward outside of -hours.
“Then the company would limit the number of stewards to one per
foreman or 50 ‘workers, and ‘establish rigid time limits on the. filing of
“grievances. It» would require the individual worker, to.sign a grievance
taken to Bldg.’ 41, which would‘be a serious. hindranée’ to the general
enforcement of contract conditions. . And. if. anyone failed to follow the
exact red tape at every ‘step, the grievance would automatically - De
decided in favor ‘of the: company.
Finally, a case could go,to arbitration only if the company agreed
that it was properly subject.to arbitration, Otherwise the question could
be dragged endlessly through the courts and. to appeals, ‘instead of let.
* sing the arbitrator decider whether or not -the, case is’ properly in arbi- ,
-traton, .
Lenoth of Contract~
The company svants a Be “year contend et tying down all’ brovisions
neation: ‘of a'general Wage revision could be opened “by
either side ‘once’a year beginning July 1, 1951. But the company would
have the right ‘to: edincel the ‘contract if. the workers go on strike over
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