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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1963
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By GEORGE C. HARLAN
Unittd Prtit International
Kaiser Steel Corp., the
"maverick" of the steel indus
try, is embarking on a labor-
management experiment
which could provide a blue
print for the future of all in
dustrial labor relations.
On March 1, the big west
coast steel producer, which
broke industry ranks in 1959
to sign a separate strike-ending
labor contract, puts into
effect a precedent-shattering
chare the savings plan. The
7.000 mill hands at Kaiser's
sprawling F o n t a n a, Calif.,
works voted last month to ap
prove it.
' The Kaiser agreement takes
an added significance because
1963 is a wage bargaining
year for the basic steel indus
try. The plan's success or failure
in ending bitter wrangling
over wage rates and in cush
ioning the impact of the
lengthening shadow of auto
mation will be watched close
ly by the other steel compa
nies as well as all industries
with a strike-scarred history.
Highlights of the monthly
chare - the - savings Kaiser
agreement are:
-All plant employees will
THREE MEN INVOLVED David C. Cole
(center), Paterson, N.J. lawyer and a mem
ber of President Kennedy's labor-management
advisory committee, is one of chief
architects of Kaiser Steel's sharo-the-savings
labor contract. The contract goes into effect
March 3 and may have influence on indus-
receive 32.3 per cent and the material costs at the Fontana
company 67.5 per cent of any
cost savings, figured on a
basis of the 1981 labor-plus-
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Cash benefits will accrue
regardless of whether the
company Is making a profit
andor whether savings stem
from Increased or better
work, new equipment, im
proved methods, better ma
terials, or any other reasons.
-Employees automatical 1 y
will get any wage increases
negotiated by the rest of the
steel industry. While the
Kaiser local will not negotiate
wage scales it will be free to
bargain on non-economic mat
ters. -Mill workers idled by
plant automation would be
placed In an "employment re
serve" and paid at the rate
of their old jobs until a new
Job opens up at the compar
able pay scale.
Continue Plant
-Existing Incentive plans
will continue in effect but a
worker will have the option
to forfeit his incentive in re
turn for a lump sum payment.
Some workers with "out-of-line
differentials" will not
participate in the sharing plan
payments.
-The four-year pact is sub
ject to annual review and re
vision by the company and
the union.
Will the Kaiser plan set a
future industry-wide pattern?
No one yet Is prepared to say,
but the other steel companies
have made no secret of the
fact that they hope not
One of the chief architects
of the accord, David L. Cole,
told United Press Internation-
try wage bargaining. United Stcclworkcr's
President, David J. McDonald (left), said it
would be discussed during reopened con
tract talks in the summer. U.S. Steel Chair
man Roger M. Blough (right), recently ex
pressed doubt it would have much impor
tance (UPI)
al that the plan was drafted
to fit Kaiser's "peculiar" situ
ation as a single, fully inte
grated (ore - to product) steel
operation. He questioned the
applicability of the formula
in its present form to such big
steel companies as U. S. Steel
with their multi - mill struc
ture.
Concept Sound
Cole, a member of Presi
dent Kennedy's Labor-Management
Advisory committee,
said he feels the Kaiser plan
could be tailored to other
steel firms and industries be
cause the "basic concept" is
sound.
Cole, who divides his lime
between practicing law in
Paterson, N.J. and acting as a
neutral peacemaker in thorny
labor disputes, said his mail in
recent weeks has been flooded
with inquiries from a wide as
sortment of companies asking
how the Kaiser accord might
be adapted to their respective
operations. He said he has re
ceived no such inquiries from
steel concerns.
But Cole said he has detect
ed some change in steel man
agement sentiment since its
initial blanket condemnation
of the plan. "They seem to
feel it may be 'All right for
Kaiser but not for us'," he
said.
Some steel officials have as
sailed the plan chictly on the
grounds that under it man
agement abdicates its "basic
right" to decide how income
Is spent and must disclose con
fidential cost data that unions
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long have been clamoring to
see.
Shortly after the new form
ula was made public United
Steelworkers President David
J. McDonald said it would be
"discussed" during reopened
contract talks this summer.
U.S. Steel Chairman Roger
M. Blough expressed doubt
recently that the Kaiser plan
would figure in any settle
ment growing out of the ne
gotiations. It is generally thought that
McDonald will hold off seek
ing to deal other union mem
bers in on the shared savings
benefits until he has had time
to gauge the potential gains
from the pact.
Cole rejected the notion
that the Kaiser agreement is
a "give-away." He pointed out
that the plan still leaves the
company about two-thirds of
any gains in production cost
savings and that its incentive
features should lower costs
and pep up output perform
ances. Plan Is Guaranteed
Should tnis summer's wage
talks break down and plunge
the industry into a prolonged
shutdown, the plan will place
Kaiser in an enviable position.
Since the agreement elimi
nates bargaining on money is
sues, Kaiser will not be a par
ty to these discussions. In ef
fect, the plan is a four-year
guarantee against production
interruptions arising from eco
nomic issues and offers a po
tent sales argument to cus
tomers who are anxious to
avoid costly steel stockpiling
as a hedge against threatened
labor troubles.
There is, however, one
joker in the pact that could
work against Kaiser. The
company could be losing
money and yet still be paying
out savings benefits to work
ers. But this situation only
could develop when its plant
is operating far below capa
city and at the same time the
few workers still on the job
increased their per man-hour
efficiency.
Industry Wails
It is doubtful that the
Kaiser formula, even if it
proves a resounding success,
will be swallowed whole by
other companies. But some
backers of the plan feel that
its feature aimed at allaying
growing labor fears over
automation eventually may
win industry-wide acceptance.
The Kaiser accord stipu
lates thai workers whose jobs
are wiped out by automation
would go into an "employ
ment reserve" or labor pool
where they would be paid at
the rate of their old jobs for
at least the average hours
worked a week in the plant
for not more than a year. The
company figures these work
ers would have to be carried
in the pool not longer than
five or six months before the
normal attrition would open
up new Jobs for them with
pay equivalent to their old
positions.
This provision is designed
to encourage workers to wel-1 review to air any grievances
come technological changes. I and the calling in of the three
As Cole expressed it: "You ! public members who helped
cannot expect cooperation for shape the plan in the event the
efficiency if that cooperation i agreement is near collapse. If
leads ultimately to walking
the streets."
The four year settlement
also provides for an annual
either side is disenchanted
with the plan at the end of
the four years it can be scrapped.
Cole, who labored nearly
three years to help bring the
formula into being, said that
failure to give the experiment
a "fair chance" for success
would be a grave disservice
to the cause of better labor
management relations.
Interpreter
Pleads 'Guilty'
To Many Crimes
By JOAN SWEENEY
Los Angeles -!UPD- Dolores
Campillo Martin has pleaded
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And she's pleaded innocent
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Apparently her, work has
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She also works in civil courts
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Most of Miss Martin's work
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"Murder cases always plead
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