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THE
SOLUTION
TO LABOR–
MANAGEMENT
PROBLEMS
We need a new approach to solving labor–
management problems. Strikes, poor working
conditions, mistrust, can be abolished. But
their elimination requires a new way of
thinking by both labor and management.
by
Robert
C.
Boraker
T
HE YEAR
1970 will go down
in
history as a
"Year of the Strike." lt has been a disastrous
year for labor-management relations. The cost
- to workers, industry and the public - has been
phenomenal.
Entire Cities Crippled
Cities have been crippled by stríkes. Postal, rail–
way, and auto workers, teachers, truck drivers, garbage
collectors, firemen and even policemen are now resort–
ing to the
strike.
They want "their share" of the national
wealth.
In the United States and Canada 400,000 people
were out of work for nearly ten weeks when the United
Auto Workers struck at General Motors. For many
American citizens the strike was a disaster. lt will take
66 weeks for striking auto workers to make up the pay
loss. Meanwhile, the automobile industry says the prices
of cars will go up.
Britain has also been plagued with strikes. British
working days lost in 1970 because of strikes were
double the 1969 number. Merchant seamen, dock
workers, farmers, nurses and factory workers were all
in on the rush to get more money into their wage packet.
As a result of a strike by 65,000 public-service men,
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