Labor Focuses on Job Security in 1962 Steel Talks
AP covers labor strategy for 1962 steel pact with a shift from hourly wages to job security. Workers seek measures to spread work, shorten weeks, and protect against layoffs amid recession, automation, and mergers while management warns such rules raise costs and could trigger price hikes. The Kennedy administration backs efforts to avert higher steel prices. Asia faces a major cholera epidemic in 1958 affecting India and several neighboring nations.