Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-27
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BY
Edward J. Duck
Assistant Division Director,
National Auto-Lite Council


have just compiled five-page report on
the Auto-Lite negotiations which took place
August 18, 10 and 20, in Toledo Perhaps the
Toledo membership in the main plant will be
interested in this report. For that reason I
will cover few of the high spots.
The two best vacation agreements reached
were the Fostoria Spark Plug and Lacrosse
agreements The Spark Plugs vacation sched-
ule is as follows:
year seniority - AZ hours pay
wears service - 521z hours pay
years service - SO hours pay
years service - 1871 hours pay
years service - "a hours pay
In Lacrosse, the workers receive 20 Of
their total yearly earnings if they have one
years seniority, and SO if they have years
seniority. The percentage includes all bonuses
of any nature, and all overtime worked. talk.
ed to Palmer Stone, one of the Lacrosse dele
gates, and learned that his particular check
amounted to $212, and that this was not bit
unusual.
The other plants had schedule of AZ, So,
and "a hours for l. 8 and years of service.
Toledo could have very well obtained this
middle" step which gives an extra ii hours
for 3-year people If it had been demanded In
the first place. I say this because no other
plant was refused it.
Unouestionably the Niagara Falls plant
has the best provisions for health and COM
pensation Niagara Falls and Syracuse have
four hours off with pay on Election Day, pro
vided the employee votes. This is by state law
in New York. We could not get this for any
other plant. Royce Martins opinion was that
it is our own job to see that legislation like
this is passed in Ohio, and he expressed few
choice remarks on three occasions relative to
representatives
supporting interests contrary to their own.
Burt Foundry Division received individ-
ual inequity adjustments for 22 classifications,
and these adjustments went as high as Il
cents In addition to the 13-cent general in
crease which everyone was granted.
Fostoria Foundry division received i'm
equity adjustments covering II classifcations,
ranging from to 1S' cents besides the Is
cents.
Lacrosse, Wis, had previously settled its
contract, but was granted an additional 2.7
cents increase for so toolroom employees.
Previous adjustments totaled So per hour and
ranged from 8 to cents. Lacrosse will take
the issue of triple time for holidays worked
to the Wisconsin State Mediation Board. The
Union claims the company had previously
agreed to this demand, the company claims it
didn't.
Buckeye Bumper received inequity adjust
ments ranging from 5h cents to 10 cents for
five classifcations and boosted the downtirne
rate by cents and III cents Paid holidays
will be granted all employees with 80 daysO
seniority. In Toledo the figure is go.
All plants which had requested inequity
adjustments for either production or non
production employees obtained such adjust
ments with the exception of Toledo, and the
reason for this as stated few weeks ago, is
that Toledo had twice accepted the conpanys
proposals. which left us with no bargaining
weapon.
We did succeed In winning some of our
demands We will receive double time after
two hours daily overtime, where previously
the figure was three hours Other plants had
been granted this, so 1t was not refused In
Toledo We also were able to restore the jobs
of five people.
Ho hum. There is lot more to it than
what appears either on the surface or in this
column, but for the time being, let's skip it.