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DETROIT — The United Auto
Workers Union selected Ford Motor
Co. Tuesday as its strike target for
forging an auto industry pattern set
tlement on new three-year contracts
this fall.
In announcing the target, UAW
President Leonard Woodcock said
the nation’s No. 2 automaker was
tagged primarily because it is Ford’s
“turn” — the company was last cho
sen in 1967.
The union chief also said he saw no
“insurmountable” problems that
would block a settlement with the
company when the current three-
year accord expires at midnight
Sept. 14.
Woodcock said he would begin
joining negotiations at Ford on a
regular basis Wednesday. Talks with
all companies started in mid-July.
Under the UAW’s “target”
strategy, bargaining at other com
panies virtually ceases until a set
tlement is reached with the selected
firm. If there is a strike, the other
companies would continue uninter
rupted production.
In 1967, the union reached a set
tlement with Ford following a 66-day
strike. General Motors, the target in
1970, was struck for 67 days, and
Chrysler, picked in the last triennial
round of contract talks, was shut
'down in 1973 by a nine-day walkout.
Asked if the UAW would avert a
nationwide strike this fall for the first
time in a dozen years. Woodcock re
sponded, “We certainly can. There
is nothing insurmountable, no com
plicated or technical problems stand
ing in the way, and we certainly are
going to do everything we possibly
can to conclude a settlement on both
sides of the table before the 14th. ”
Ford’s top negotiator said he, too,
is confident of averting a fall walkout.
Labor Vice President Sidney F.
McKenna said his company always
bargains with the UAW on the as
sumption it will be the target.
The UAW, which represents
160,000 U.S. hourly workers at
Ford, expects to have a record $175
million in its strike fund when the
current agreement expires, enough
to sustain a four-month walkout
against the company.
Industrywide contracts covering
680,000 workers at the Big Three
companies and American Motors
Corp. all expire in mid-September.
Rubber
The United Rubber Workers and
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
reached tentative agreement Tues
day on a new three-year contract
providing a 36 per cent wage boost.
If the contract is approved by union
members, it will end a strike which
went into its 126th day on Tuesday,
the longest walkout in industry his
tory.
The proposed pact includes gen
eral wage increases totaling $1.35 an
hour over the length of the contract
and an uncapped cost-of-living ad
justment that Goodyear estimated
would total 69 cents an hour over the
three-year period.
The pact provides for an im
mediate 80-cents-an-hour wage
hike.
The URW scheduled a ratification
vote Friday at Akron and said votes
at the other 16 Goodyear plants
would be scheduled later. Goodyear
said production could resume at
normal levels about two days after,
acceptance of the contract.
There was no immediate word of
similar agreement being reached in
continuing negotiations between the
URW and Uniroyal Inc., B. F.
Goodrich Co. and Firestone Tire &
Rubber Co.
All four manufacturers were
struck by the URW, the first time
the union struck all of the Big Four
simultaneously.
URW members walked out April
21 when the contracts covering
60,000 workers expired at 47 Big
Four plants across the nation. About
10,000 other URW members joined
the strike in July as their contracts
with smaller firms expired.
The tentative agreement reached
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1976
with Goodyear on Tuesday closely
followed terms of the tentative reso
lution of major economic issues
reached with Firestone about two
weeks ago. Those terms were con
sidered to set the pattern for the in
dustry.
In addition to increased wages and
the cost-of-living adjustment, the
Goodyear pact provides improved
pension, health. Supplemental Un
employment Benefits and life insur
ance programs, the firm said.
Under the old contract, general
wages averaged $5.50 an hour indus
trywide with benefits adding an av
erage $3.55. There was no cost-of-
living adjustment.
Rank-and-file members and local
union officials predicted ratification
of the new contract proposal by the
end of the week.
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