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LOCAL-301 NEWS
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[UE-GE Conference Board Resolutions
At the recent GE Conference
following plitforni wits resolved:
{AN LNTIENSIVID A SMT}
SHIP DRIVIS to organize all the
unorganized ?in the General Islos-
trie Chain,
ee: I LMULA'TE CON-
TRACT! 1 NNDS for the come
ine negotiations in 1960,
* ALL OUT SUPPORT for the
members of Loc 454, LUI, Tren.
ton, Nv, wha a low entering
their JOLn week of strike agiinst
Cel,
The following message was also
resolved:
TODAY IN SPITE: OF ITS
RECORD PROFITS — General
Electric is intensifying its athick
upon the standards of the GIo ent
ployees,
It is doing this by wholesale
layoffs, movement of products
out of plants, speedups, cutting
of rates and trying to undermine
the protections in the contract,
Thera is hardly a plant where
this offensive against the GE em-
ployees is not being carried out.
CHD protests that it must do this
"to be competitive.’ In Lynn, it
claims that it must cut turbine
costs by 159%. Tnstead of reduc-
ing the heavily inflated prices, in-
: of cutting down on the fan-
tustic officer's bonuses and stock
option plans, GI is trying to
xqueeze this 154) out of tha em-
ployees by cutting employment
Ing and making the rest of the
ciiployees worl 159 harder,
WHILE GE ENJOYS RECORD
PROSPISRITY there ate still
niiny thousands of fits employees
nid ‘off. Many have exhausted
tnomployment compensation and
are living on miserable velief, At
the satne time, employees of steel,
auto, rubber, canning, aluminum
end other industries get $25 woek-
ly or more in SUI payments and
are ontithed to up to $3,000 in sep-
amition pay if iid off for more
Bourd in Washington, D. C., the j
Last year GE refused our de-
niands for employment securily
on the grounds that Ceconomic
conditions” did) not. permit it.
There are no “economic condi-
tions either then or today that
prevent it from meeting its obli-
vations as outlined in the 154
agreement to neyotiate On em-
ployment sccurity, Thousands of
our members who were lid off in
1987 and 1958 know What suffer:
ing they went through. Many
thousands of others were down-
graded or worked short work
weeks.
The communities suffered from
the inadequate purchasing power
available,
We know that in the next two
years there will come the inevita-
ble downpour again when more
thousands will be thrown, onto the
streets. We must not it until
then (o secure protection.
led notably by GE, is one of the
few industrial holdouts against
employment security.
We cunnot expect to improve
our conditions in any field unless
we are able to convince GE that
we mean to achieve justice and
equity on employment security.
We cannot expect Gio to respect
us on other matters unless we
ave able to stand together on em-
ployment security.
We know Chat negotiations for
4960 are important, But it is clear
from what we see today on the
industrial front, that the employ-
ers’ group prodded by Gi are re-
fusing to bargain any improve-
taent uniass workers give up more
than the benefits received through
weakening of contract protections,
TY Is CLINAR that unless we
are prepared to get GE to respect
us and to negotiqde in geod faith
this year, our negotiations for
than 22 months.
1960 will be weakened,
"LABOR LOOKS
SATURDAY EVENIN
WSNY 1240 ON YOUR DIAL
— Sponsored by Local 301, |. UE —
AT THE NEWS"
GS — 6:45-7:00 P.M.
THE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY, |.
The 1658 reopener on -employ-
laent security is still open, Nego-
tintions were ended last year by
the refusal of CS to continue
them, We must now insist. that
nevotintions be resumed and that
bargaining centinuas to reach an
avrecment on employment secur-
ity before the end of 1950.
Be it therefore resolved that the
Negotiating Committee be empow-
ered to put to Gic our demand
for the resumption of negotiations
and to develop a canipaign among
the local membership and com-
Inunities to support this demand.
IWE-GE Gonference Board
dlugust 28, 1959
Remember!
IAA he
Drive
Carefully
Over
Labor Day
Weekend
Send the
Children
to School
on Tuesday
MAC TOOLROOM
CHOOSES ROTATION
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tion to rotate as they had agreed
to do.
This utter callousness on the
part of management is hard to
understand and the only coneclu-
sion that we can draw is that the
workers in the plant understand
their moral obligations to each
other but management feels no
such obligation to any of thei
workers,
Agnin, we must repeat--Ts this
what GE means when it continues
to state that “We do right volun-
tarily bi our workers”?
ETRE META enna
Pastis een ee
, Vol, 6, No, 5
The Voice of GE Workers, Local 301, ‘TUE
September 11, 1959
nea sured
ae ana eaiaeneinae eae cme
3.46% INCREASE EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 15TH, 19591
‘Effective next Tuesday, September 15, all wa
C rage rates will reflect an increas
of 3 hbi. _ This will be the 5th and Jast general wage increase provided for in the
1955-1960 Wage Agreement,’ The contracts covering all conditions of: employment
including Wages, Pensions, Sick an
EXPERIENCED G1ASS BLOWERS WANTED
JOB DESCRIPTION: .
.
Female, must be 5'2" tall, weigh 1203 lbs,}
blue-eyed, blonde, must use Ipana tooth=
paste, and follow a "special" diet, '
In addition, she must’arise at 6:00 a.m,,’
do moderate exercises, eat 1 pe, of’ toast,
no butter, 1 egg, 1 half grapefruit, and
1 cup of black coffee,
She must arrive in the plant at 6:45 a.m.,
plus or minus one (1) minute, speak softly
to the foreman’and proceed to perform her
/ related duties,
.
Sounds foolish? Well, let's take a
look at what's been géing on in the Power
Tube Section recently.
Women in the Camera Tube Section (ex-
perienced glass glowers) whose occupation
is blowing targets and work at the R«k6
rate (2,18 per hr.) are expected to pro-
duce an 18 to 25% yield, (cont'd. pg. 2)
echaoeeadl
eath Benefits expire October 1, 1960, It is
expected that negotiations for new agree~:
ments will start 60 days prior to contract
termination or on about August of 1960,
. The present agreements provided along
with increased wages, reductions in
premium payments for pensions, whereby
employees were paying 2% of their wages
up to the Social Security maximums which
were subject to tax (4200.00 - 1955),.
($4800.00. = 1959) and 5% of the remainder
of their annual compensation, These
premiums have been reduced whereby G.E,
pays the premium up to $4800.00 of annual
wages and the employee pays 3% of his. . --
wages that are over $4800,00 rather than
the former 5%, |
The Cost of Living Adder has helped
to maintain the’ purchasing level of the
increased wages, with the present percen~
tage of approx, 7% added to the earnings,
The five wage increases that have
been provided in the 5-year agreement and
how they affected rates from Common Labor
to Toolmaking are shown on back page.
RATES OF HOURLY RATED- EMPLOYEES
Effective Sept. 15, 1959
DAYWORK RATES
1.795 1,855
1.845 1.91
1.905 1.97
1.965: 2.03
2,02 2.09
2085 2,16
2.18 26255
2.265 23h
2636 204k
2046 > 2a 5h5
2.555 | 86K
2,655 20745
2.725 2.82
2,80
2.88
2.96
~ 3,035
3,41
3,185
% » Common Labor
PIECHVORK RATES
SYMBOL 9n1 5-58
I-14, 2.015
2,075
2145
2,21
2508
2.365
2045
20 5k,
2.625
2.72
* 2,81
2688
2695
3,015
3.09
3.16
3423
34305
wt » Tool & Die,
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