No-Strike Pacts Shape Labor Talks in Steel and Beyond
The no-strike binding-arbitration model would keep workers on the job during negotiations. In 1974 the United Steelworkers and major mills tested this approach, but votes loom for new leadership as 1977 nears with debate over its impact on bargaining power, layoffs, and future adoption in aviation and other sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Steelworkers Union
L.W. Abel
Steelworkers
Abel
Lloyd McBride
Sears
Big Steel
McBride
Knights of Labor
Sadlowski
Stee
Douglas & Lomason declares higher quarterly dividend plan
The Douglas & Lomason Company in Michigan raises its regular quarterly car dividend from 5 to 10 cents plus a 15 cent extra per share, payable December 31 to holders of record December 17. Insurance premiums totaled over 63.7 billion in 1974, led by the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas & Lomason Company
Michigan
Board of Directors
United States
Insurance Information Institute
U.S
West Germany
Frost and Iran Research
Hope regulation to avert loophole in beef imports
Agriculture Department officials propose a regulation to close a loophole in the beef import control program. The rule would count all beef imported into the Foreign Trade Zone and processed for reshipment as part of the origin country’s quotas or voluntary restraints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
United States
Money supply and bank lending rise with limits
An article by Dr. J A Cacy in the Monthly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City questions whether M1 growth always tracks commercial bank lending. He notes M1 can rise with bank purchases of securities or other factors, and that correlations with loan growth are modest, though M1 growth aligns better with total bank credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.A. Cacy
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Cacy
Bank
Flavorland closes three plants amid Nebraska strikes
Flavorland Industries announces permanent shutdown of its Omaha and Sioux City beef slaughtering plants due to a strike that began December 1. The closures affect about 445 employees and threaten the Iowa hide plant at Sergeant Bluff. Union rejection of a 39 cent per hour raise left wages below competing contracts, prompting the company to warn of permanent closings if not accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
UPI
Flavorland Industries Inc
Omaha
Neb
Sioux City
Nebraska
Sargeant Bluff
Iowa
Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of
North America
Flavorland
Fargo
N.D
Toppenish
Wash
Nebraska cattle urge regional veterinary college plan
Alliance Nebraska UPI reports the Nebraska Stock Growers Association warns of a looming veterinarian shortage as about seven million cattle roam the state. Legislative committee chairman Charles Sodence says Nebraska must secure a future supply by backing a regional veterinary college concept adopted at a Stock Growers workshop in Valentine.
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Columbus
Telegram Financial Page
Burlington Northern
Pope
Louis W. Menk
Morris Industries, Inc
Morris Paint and Varnish Company
St. Louis
Remy Braun
Spencer Foods ,Inc
Schuyler Slaughters
Braun
Schuyler
Alice
New York
UPD
American Spice Trade Association
Internal Revenue Service
Equitable
Ustable Savings & Loan Association
25Th Ave
W. Main
Albion
Dick Nelson
Pershing Center
Hwy
East
State Farm
State Farm Insurance Companies
Bloomngton Lines
Paul Hottmann
Columbus, Nebraska
Columbus Telegram
Cook
Los Angeles
Wayne
Mich
Cuyahoga
Ohio
Sale
Colfax County Land
Nebr
Carl Fuhr
Colfax
Henry Fuhr
Francis R. O’brien
George E. McNally
Gerald Vasek
Edward Asche, Attorney
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