Automation and the CIO View of a Second Industrial Revolution
Walter Reuther tours a Ford engine plant to observe automation cutting engine block time from hours to minutes. The CIO argues automation will reshape employment, wages, and social policy, urging programs to boost purchasing power, public works, and guaranteed work during the transition.
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Walter Reuther
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Ford
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Local 647 UAW-CIO Explains Guaranteed Employment Plan
Harold Braun outlines how the Guaranteed Employment plan operates. Workers must be available for work to receive payments and may register with the State Employment Service. If a laid-off worker finds suitable work elsewhere and is later unemployed again, his guaranteed weeks are frozen during employment, potentially extending protection beyond 52 weeks. The plan sets standards of suitability by a Joint Board of Administration. If a job is suitable under state law but not under the plan, the worker may refuse without losing rights to payments. Employers are incentivized to remove unrealistic disqualifications from state unemployment laws.
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UAW
State
Labor union letter defends full employment and wage gains
Local 674 UAW CIO argues against claims that guaranteed full employment harms business. It stresses jobs, seniority protections, better wages, retirement and health security, overtime pay, shorter contracts, and preferential hiring as central goals. It notes widespread industry growth depends on rising family incomes and prosperity.
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United States
CIO
Upcoming union and board meetings schedule
ACWA Board of Directors meets Monday March 7 at 7 30 p.m. at 425 E Fourth St. Paperworkers Local 1009 gathers Monday March 14 at 7 30 p.m. at 208 Dunn St Lockland O. PMMW Local 256 holds Friday March 11 at 8 p.m. in the Junior Order Hall on Weyer Ave Norwood.
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