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HOW GOOD IS THE GENERAL ELECTRIC OFFER? * ■ ' ' 1 And How Good Were GE Pay and Benefits ' TiH ! V " . !'• Ih Before This $40,000,000 Offer? : . -p* pH? - ~ " -I' - • '■ . ij ’' .'J j.; ... . ' : u 7' 'I -U * ■ '4 ; -~~ : ' J Wehaviofferedat4o million wagesand benefits. / i-t———XL | Y . °* An * rican MpqfS , ; .1 V \ J f * ” ‘ The Board ’ s recommendation!, therefore. do not set ' i . ' • This Offer puts our more than 23% above what they 1 a new pattern •<* » Urt another ‘round’ of increases or “• •• the Steelworkers are ‘catching up’ to patterns already A were at the outbreak of the Korean War. It puts the total of > | T ““'’“’“ed. rather biasing a new tr«l.» pay and extra benefit, about 28% above what they were at H“ machinery U.l buttoned up. TheVve the Start Os the Korean war. And the cost of living during f more m IgSl and 1952 to their wage earners, including ' gw A . .j , , . / f ? > Charlie Wilson’s own firm, than the board recommended - ® i . the same time has risen only about 13%—0r less than half ' | ' i ! ' ■ to worker... iThe important r.et i, that I as much as our pay and benefits. ! * ■ ‘ h “ r catchin « °p • • -Thia time most everybody K \ ' i ■ i * has gotten whats coming under the wage regulations ■ : . 4 j. / > except in steel.” , £ > hathan f. fhnsinoer, chairman, wsb . ; This S4O million offer-Hnow accepted by about 40 AFL and I CIO unions*—is an additional increase on top of the good \ I wages and benefits that were already being enjoyed by Gen- V \ J L eral Electric employees last spring. ‘ jf ■ f “Under these recommendations, the steel workers would \ S - ■ I ! Bimply bc catchin ß up with what workers in other major 1 wim But it was claimed by both unions and others last spring I . industr »« are already receiving.” Ij ■|h| ’®F J : • _ W MfMMNT TRUMAN > I that the proposals for the settlement of the steel case—which w. # I \ • JMk so shocked Congress and the public— would permit steel pay ' s I _..- Z and benefits only to to yvhat the auto and elec- / / I® ' / trical industry workers were airlady enjoying. 1 ' jZ M iSßfc ■ Remember that we are offering to put this new S4O million fl I \ 'r \ : layer ontop pt the pay and benefits that our employees were 71 W®'' IWj " ■’ !t• ; ’ -I J' already enjoying last spring. And ook at what was being said 1/ W . ” ■ i TT -K* last spring about our pay and benefits then by all these: | ILLECTRICAL UNION JNEWS L. . ‘ v , \ t«t votes or na uhiuo tiecnicAu tAtHO * machine wo.xres of *»e«!c* _ . 11 iocM.xn.ve . I “... the benefits which have been recommended by the \ V 1 f Wage Stabilisation Board for the steel industry will not \ V: j : i mb • ■ ■■> ■ ■ *'• bring the steel industry up to a comparable status—l re-\ 1 COIHpOnnCJ UE CinCl CIO Sto6l I peat, will not bring the steel industry in its relationship I V, A point-by-(point] comparison of the WSB’« major CIO vteclreeom--1 K w ith its employees up to a comparable status—with the / \ \ js mendationa with what UE haa won... ahowa that atee! still wouldn’t \ automotive, electrical.. . industries, .. / pwassa™—i have “caught up”. .. . ■” 1 ' - V 1— y ' iX' -\ ax ■ ' /r- *\ \ . ’ "The union reply is that ... Hia steel Workers will ba | [ °r. .even if the Wage Stabilisation Board’s recommenda- \ merely catching up with those in automobiles, electrical 0/ ’ ! ! r ff9 nl werc met, even if they were accepted by the steel 1 manufacturing, ... who have already been given higher V; 1 the employees of General Electric would be I wages.'* { \ ’ I i - V far but in front, in terms of so-called fringe benefits.” i NSW YORK times—march so, isss jx * n 1 f\e . F ; .J. A. L. I 1 ’ ' lan^m^aa^—■Maa «... the proposed settlement would still leave the Steel- Y . i t J” e l * t the record right. This is but a catch-up for \ - K , I [ workers lacking gains which have been won by workers 1 I Pwenffy employed in the steel in other industries 7 I industry of the United States.” L, SfNATOR humrt h. X, 5 **Tn its pther recommendations having to do with paid B 5 / holidays, improved allowances for vacations, and an in- \ . "" _L " ' - ! I crease in the differential for night work, the Board merely I' J? . < I \ pL. fl I ttCted to permit steel workers partially to catch up with / |L existing practices in other major industries.” . Z - \ A? - . “"The proposed settlement, therefore, is not inflationary Y [• \ ' jflßflr • .'! . . Lj/ ' I f ’• *n anyway. It simply, would remove some of the grave L ■ ml- ‘\ ■ ■ I ** i inequities existing in the steel industry...” J - I \ JAMIS B. CARRY / . — -Uj I .-4 k , "Among massages which poured into the WSB was that from seven X. Y f.• •• • laige part of the Board’s recommendations in this \ UE Locals in the Buffalo area, which declared that 'steelworkers are \\ ® ■f instance is a catch-up and .. . many industries have I justly entitled to enjoy the sam* benefits enjoyed by workers rep- * ' •/ ;j£M - a rcady had these thin s s granted to them I resented by our union and by many other unions in our country*." fljMflßHflHL / B ROOIR FUTNAM, ECONOMIC STASIUZER / ELECTRICAL UNION NEWS, (LOCAL 301-UE] MARCH 11, Hsl A ■ > 11 lufjeEaß Bl IBi ■ y Li ;r . . ■ CMPLOYEt ANS *IJ&T COMMUNITY

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