Archive Report
Archive Report
Demands of Organized Labor for Welfare Funds
Establishment of health and welfare funds in industries where they do not now exist, and expansion of welfare plans already in operation, are leading postwar objectives of American trade unions. Welfare fund demands will receive steadily increasing emphasis from organized labor as the ground is cut from under demands for cost-of-living wage boosts by the expected downward movement of prices.
The union movement for welfare funds results in part from the failure of Congress to act upon administration proposals to expand the Social Security System by providing sickness and disability insurance for the general population. But the new labor-management relations bill shortly to be sent to the White House will contain provisions to outlaw most, if not all, types ...