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Chrysler, UAW meet
for contract talks
United Press International
DETROIT — Chrysler Corp.
Chairman Lee lacocca met with
United Auto Workers bargain
ers Wednesday in the second
day of contract talks to explain
what the company planned to
offer in a new labor agreement.
spond to the Chrysler presenta
tion today.
The UAW has made it clear
that it intends to gain back $662
million in concessions made to
the company.
The session, expected to last
all morning, was closed to repor
ters. But UAW President Doug
las Fraser predicted “we’re
going to get a show — you know
we will if lacocca’s giving it.”
Union bargainers said the
new contract should include a
restoration of cost-of-living allo
wance payments plus job secur
ity for Chrysler’s remaining
60,600 blue-collar workers.
Fraser made the comment as
he walked in the bright sunshine
from the union’s bargaining
office across the Chrysler park
ing lot to the building where the
talks were being held.
No formal briefing was set.
The union is scheduled to re-
As talks opened Tuesday,
Fraser referred immediately to
Chrysler’s announcement the
day before of a $106.9 million
second-quarter profit. It was
Chrysler’s second straight quar
ter of black ink and its highest
profit in nearly six years.
“Your timing is just great,”
Fraser quipped.
The UAW in early 1981
agreed to Avage and benefit
freezes estimated to have saved
the company $662 million. The
union maintains the concessions
have placed Chrysler workers’
labor rates at $2.58 an hour less
than the $20 earned by workers
at Ford Motor Co. and General
Motors Corp.
The loss of COLA alone costs
workers $1,100 every three
months, Fraser said.
“It’s time to give (Chrysler
workers) the credit that’s due
and now they deserve equity,”
said Fraser following the open
ing two-hour session of bar
gaining.
He acknowleged, however,
the union was unlikely to get
back all its concessions “in one
fell swoop.”
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NEW YORK — Young scien
tists may be scarce on the Amer
ican scene by 2000, and the same
is true for young mathemati
cians.
Numerous studies, experts,
and prognostications point in
that direction. Not enough sci
entists and mathematicians, they
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say, are in the pipeline right now
in the high schools or colleges.
The forecasters see this as an
ominous trend for the United
States, coming at a time when
the nation and the world are
rocketing into a technological
society. T he experts say that
even to survive in such a society,
people who who don’t make
their living at science or mathe
matics will need enough know
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telligent decisions about every
day life.
The National Society for
Teachers of Mathematics, the
National Academy of Sciences
and National Science Teachers
Association are among those sig
naling S.O.S. over the crisis in
science and math.
The latest report is in “Che
mical & Engineering News,” an
American Chemical Society
publication.
“A pair of long-brewing prob
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status,” the report said. “One is
that the public, by most objective
measures, is becoming increas
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matical, scientific and technolo
gical.
“The other, related to the
first, is a current and worsening
shortage of persons competent
and willing to teach those sub
jects to students in elementary
and secondary schools.
“The two have been lumped
into one official crisis — the cri
sis in pre-college education in
science and mathematics.”
At a National Academy of Sci
ences conference on the subject,
Paul DeHart, emeritus profes
sor of education, Stanford Un-
viersity, California, said:
•Only 34 percent of U.S. high
school graduates have finished
three years of mathematics. Of
those, only 8 percent have taken
calculus, which is taught in only
31 percent of the high schools.
•Fewer than 20 percent of the
graduates have had three years
of science. Most seniors have
had a course in biology and 37
percent have had chemistry. But
only 19 percent have had phy-
•If you narrow the study to
only those students in pre
college courses, who make up
about 40 percent of the high
school population, the figures
are only somewhat higher. Fifty-
five percent had had three or
more years of math; 41 percent
have had three or more years of
science.
•Among the 60 percent of
high school students who pur
sue general or vocational
courses, only 20 percent have
had three years of math and just
about 10 percent have had three
years of science.
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