Report Outline
Productivity and Wage Policy
Organized Labor and Technical Advances
Effects of Union Policies on Output
Special Focus
Productivity and Wage Policy
Union Concern with Questions of Productivity
Productivity of industry and of the individual worker has assumed a place of importance in the determination of trade union policy as a result of the declines during the last twelve months of prices, profits, and employment from the boom levels of earlier years. President Truman told Congress in his economic report, Jan. 6, that the country's basic economic problem no longer is to control inflation but rather to increase production, jobs, and purchasing power.
Leading labor organizations are now demanding that gains from higher output per worker be passed on in the form of wage increases, And in some instances unions are showing concern over the threat of unemployment brought by revolutionary advances in technology. Ground for apprehension among all wage earners, organized and unorganized, is raised by the statement of Leon Keyserling, acting chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, that “the economy is on the way to being so productive that we won't have large enough outlets for increasing productivity” unless new markets are found.
A special A. F. L. bulletin on 1950 wage strategy, sent to all affiliated unions on Dec. 26, 1949, expressed willingness to “cooperate with management to reduce production costs.” In demanding “substantial wage increases without price increases,” the A. F. L. expressed belief that employers could cut costs by improving processes and equipment. Earlier in 1949 the A. F. L. declared in Labor's Monthly Survey for May-June: “Wage increases should now be based on past or future increases in productivity to prevent undue rises in costs.” |
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Labor Unions' Future  |
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Labor Movement's Future |
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Organized Labor in the 1980s |
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Nov. 06, 1981 |
Labor Under Siege |
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Mar. 24, 1978 |
Labor's Southern Strategy |
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Aug. 20, 1976 |
Labor's Options |
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Oct. 27, 1971 |
Organized Labor After the Freeze |
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Oct. 19, 1966 |
Labor Strife and the Public Interest |
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Jan. 30, 1963 |
Strike Action and the Law |
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Sep. 20, 1961 |
Conflicts in Organized Labor |
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Aug. 04, 1960 |
Labor, Management, and the National Interest |
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Dec. 16, 1959 |
Future of Free Collective Bargaining |
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Nov. 04, 1959 |
Featherbedding and Union Work Rules |
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Feb. 18, 1959 |
Public Intervention in Labor Disputes |
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Jul. 09, 1958 |
Suits Against Labor Unions |
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Nov. 13, 1957 |
Right-To-Work Laws |
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Oct. 31, 1956 |
Union Organizing |
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May 01, 1954 |
State Powers in Labor Relations |
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Oct. 02, 1953 |
Toward Labor Unity |
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Apr. 11, 1953 |
Industry-Wide Bargaining and Industry-Wide Strikes |
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Sep. 03, 1952 |
Labor and Politics |
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Mar. 25, 1950 |
Labor Injunctions |
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Jan. 25, 1950 |
Trade Unions and Productivity |
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Sep. 26, 1949 |
Fact-Finding Boards in Labor Disputes |
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Mar. 05, 1949 |
Closed Shop |
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Dec. 01, 1948 |
Revision of the Taft-Hartley Act |
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Jan. 01, 1947 |
Labor Unions, the Public and the Law |
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Oct. 09, 1946 |
Revision of the Wagner Act |
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Sep. 25, 1946 |
Labor Productivity |
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May 29, 1946 |
Labor Organization in the South |
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Jan. 30, 1946 |
Compulsory Settlement of Labor Disputes |
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May 18, 1945 |
Labor Policy After the War |
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Mar. 29, 1945 |
Union Maintenance |
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Feb. 02, 1945 |
Labor Relations in Coal Mining |
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Oct. 12, 1944 |
No-Strike Pledge |
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Sep. 16, 1944 |
Political Action by Organized Labor |
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May 30, 1944 |
Unionization of Foremen |
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Apr. 01, 1944 |
Dismissal Pay |
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Apr. 29, 1943 |
Labor in Government |
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Apr. 09, 1943 |
Public Regulation of Trade Unions |
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Nov. 19, 1941 |
Labor Policies of the Roosevelt Administration |
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Oct. 23, 1941 |
Closed Shop Issue in Labor Relations |
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Mar. 29, 1941 |
Labor as Partner in Production |
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Feb. 12, 1941 |
Labor and the Defense Program |
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Feb. 23, 1940 |
Labor in Politics |
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Jan. 17, 1939 |
Settlement of Disputes Between Labor Unions |
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Jul. 01, 1938 |
Three Years of National Labor Relations Act |
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Nov. 12, 1937 |
State Regulation of Labor Relations |
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Jul. 10, 1937 |
Restrictions on the Right to Strike |
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Apr. 28, 1937 |
The Labor Market and the Unemployed |
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Mar. 26, 1937 |
Control of the Sit-Down Strike |
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Mar. 13, 1937 |
Collective Bargaining in the Soft-Coal Industry |
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Jan. 22, 1937 |
Responsibility of Labor Unions |
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Nov. 11, 1936 |
Industrial Unionism and the A.F. of L. |
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Jul. 30, 1936 |
Federal Intervention in Labor Disputes |
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Jul. 14, 1936 |
Labor Relations in the Steel Industry |
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Apr. 17, 1934 |
Company Unions and Collective Bargaining |
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Feb. 07, 1934 |
Settlement of Labor Disputes |
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Sep. 12, 1933 |
Trade Unionism Under the Recovery Program |
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Feb. 17, 1932 |
Wage Concessions by Trade Unions |
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Oct. 01, 1929 |
Status of the American Labor Movement |
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Jul. 20, 1929 |
Trade Unionism in the South |
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Aug. 31, 1928 |
Organized Labor in National Politics |
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Feb. 04, 1928 |
The Use of Injunctions in Labor Disputes |
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Sep. 09, 1927 |
Organized Labor and the Works Council Movement |
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Oct. 12, 1923 |
The A.F. of L. and the “New Radicalism” |
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