Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free press saturday 30, 1973 Union leaders in . Question usefulness of strikes by de Townsend Christian science Monitor news service new Yoke the right to threaten to strike and perhaps to walk out is cherished by Al most All labor leaders they consider it it an inalienable right of unions. However the use of the strike weapon in disputes with employers is being questioned More and More even by those who most staunchly Delend the right. The actual exercise of the right to strike is increasingly distasteful according to Wil Liam e. Simkin from 1961 to Early 1969 director of the fed eral mediation Anil Concilia Lioi service in Washington. One of the speakers at a recent con Ference of the Institute of col 1 c c t i v e bargaining in san Francisco or. Simkin said there Are important and pervasive reasons for this. All too often the gains Are substantially less than the or. Simkin told the forum of contract negotiators from management and unions and sonic of the top mediators and arbitrators. He added in the . Importantly it is no longer necessary for a Union to strike to prove that labor is a potent Force. This line of think ing is not something new. It has been developing for a Long the Institute forum the first held outside new York was called to consider whether strikes Are outmoded that is whether they no longer serve a useful purpose and what if any alternatives can be work Stop substituted for pages. The two Day session at san Francisco s Fairmont hotel reached no startling conc us Sions but it did result in a keen examination of the useful Ness of the strike today. The most important thing perhaps was the seriousness w i t h which alternatives to walkouts were considered even among representatives of organized labor. From George Mcany president of Al Cio cd o w n through Union ranks there is a conviction that strikes should be an absolute last resort in labor management relations. In the absence of or. Elcany Lane Kirkland Al c i 0 Secretary treasurer and president of the Institute of collective bargaining said there is an Opportunity and need today for experimentation with various alternative approaches to free and Volun tary solution of conflicts involving labor and manage ment without going As far As compulsory arbitration in any form. Or. Oleany has talked frequently of voluntary arbitration of disputed issues in bar gaining As a Way to avoid strikes. This he says is not the same As compulsory arbitration limiting the right to strike by Law or government Man Date but is simply a matter of binding arbitration voluntarily agreed on by the Par tics involved who agree to continue working and let a third parly resolve their differences. Says or. Mcany strikes of people gelling or More a year just Don t make when workers were making Only 50 cells an hour and struck he says they had Little to lose. They Only had to make up the 50 cents an hour. They could go begging and get food unions could manage to keep them but now he says most have a Little Home maybe a couple of kids going to if they go on strike they re overboard within a we would like to eliminate strikes just on that basis or. Mcany says. In a interview with . News and world report in Early be suggested an alternative think it would work out that you would submit your new contract proposals 90 Days be fore the expiration of the old contract you would agree u bargain and you would agree to submit unsettled questions to binding arbitration. Perhaps As a Start Yoi would the contract would in automatically extended under its new terms the terms Sel by uie arbitrator Lei s say for a year. In of her words that would give you an other year that you would have a strike. At the end o that time if you Felt that Yot had got a bad Deal you could or. Meany called Thi something radically but it has precedent now. The United Stech workers and la Basic steel Industry have sine signed an agreement for an Experiment in collective bar gaining Lylial bars any Indus try wide shutdown in steel Over contract terms into mid-1977. The san Francisco forum spent a Good part of one ses Sion considering this agree ment and us application in other industries. The consensus seemed to be that it was Tai lored Well to the particular needs of the steel Industry but that it might not work in industries with different bargain ing patterns. Steel bargaining is Industry wide negotiations in most other industries Are com Pany by company As recently in Oil rubber and electrical manufacturing or at the Plant level but to i. W. Abel the United steelworkers president t h c plan has Basic elements thai should work Well and he says s h o u 1 d strengthen collective bargaining. Wary of leaving contract solutions to outside third party determination he says chances Are Good thai All issues will be resolved at the bargaining table without resorting to the steel agreement was negotiated quietly about a year in Advance of the termination of contracts to avoid disruptive inventory buying of Stee As a Protection against a Possi ble Industry shutdown in 1974. Under terms of the agreement steelworkers Are guaranteed no less than a three per cent raise each year plus continuation 01 an unlimited Cost of living escalator plan. Additionally each will receive a Bonus As his share of anticipated company savings As a result of a no strike guar Antee. Certain conditions in Thi contract important to one Side or the other Are prot Clec from changes. They key to the arbitration plan is the establishment of those untouchable minimums in the next contract. Beginning in february 1974, he Industry and the steel Union will bargain routinely on other matters including if the Union chooses a larger wage increase. If the parties cannot agree on everything in across the table bargaining unresolved issues will be submitted to binding arbitration. There can t be an Industry wide strike Over contract terms Al though locals can if they feel they have to strike Over local work conditions or similar issues. The right of a Union to strike or of management to take a strike was defended along with the proposition advanced by Theodore w. Klipeel that the possibility that there will be a strike can never be discarded without doing irreparable damage to collective bar gaining or. Hecl of new York is a labor attorney a Veteran mediator Aiu arbitrator and administrative director of the Institute. On the management Side Robert k. Grunsky president of the Hawaii employers coun cil called for workable alter natives to to project ". Based Industry in the world on la Bor s Side William w. Wiki Pisinger a vice president of the International association of machinists contended Hal in would not be statesmanship but suicide for unions to sur Render their right to strike. And from the Middle David l. Cole chairman of piss id e n t Nixon s new National c o in m i s s i o n for Industrial peace and a leading mediator and arbitrator for 30 years and once head of the Federal mediation and conciliation ser vice said that to claim that collective bargaining is not possible without strikes is like saying that there can t be diplomacy without War. We know we can t eliminate wars or strikes by the simple process of outlawing or. Cole said. We can Only Endeavor to minimize Reliance of copyright 1973 the Christian science Monitor publishing society. Sex Cabinet minister Hunts Job Joe Borowski former nip Abinet minister and former in dependent la is in the Narket for a Job which will in Ible him to continue preaching his message that we re living it the 12lh hour nol uie end f the world but Hie divine punishment the world will get or its descent to moral sew or. Borowski said in a Tele phone interview Friday he had in finely expected to win in Point Douglas where he lost to he new democratic party s lev. Donald Malinowski in thursday s provincial Clellion. Now he s going to wait bout a week rest and look for a Job. He said he was con Tui no to withhold income tax in Lis fight against abortion and tends to write the income tax department soon informing it if his actions. This could Lake him to jail and Ihus solve the Job prob pm he said. Or. Borowski called Bis de Feal a sad commentary on a fam Hcan highways looked Kueth Suhey would t Hufe a Gas mob. Society ing its More interested in fill stomach and getting something for nothing than in Jim evils and immorality in our his own Mcfeal does t Lell the whole Story he said. He coupled in with the defeat of attorney general Al Mackling in St. James whom he called Iho Only attorney general to declare War on uie filth Mer people who suggest Central City legislation was a Factor in or. Mackling s defeat Don t re Alize finance minister Saul Cherniack and resources min ister Sidney Green had whomp ing majorities and they pushed the Central City even harder he said. Father Malinowski Lias Nevi spoken out against abortion in the legislature or. Borowski said. I Don t like attacking priest even a heretic priest he has sold out Bis people an betrayed his Church. He Hab preached against abortion and pornography As mortal sin but if the Premier were to offer him a Cabinet Post or condition he throw off his Clori Cal garb he d do it and the people of Point Douglas Are aware of thai. 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