Airline Dispute: Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session on Whether an Emergency Exists as Set Forth in Senate Joint Resolution 181, Part 2 |
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... productivity and wage rate increases , on an overall industrywide basis . They have never been prescribed by the Council of Economic Advisers as a test for a particular case . In this particular instance productivity has been going up ...
... productivity and wage rate increases , on an overall industrywide basis . They have never been prescribed by the Council of Economic Advisers as a test for a particular case . In this particular instance productivity has been going up ...
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... productivity in this country . We are the only country in the world that has done it in the last 5 years . No other country has come within 10 percent of it . We are the only country in which unit labor costs have not gone up . By and ...
... productivity in this country . We are the only country in the world that has done it in the last 5 years . No other country has come within 10 percent of it . We are the only country in which unit labor costs have not gone up . By and ...
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... productivity rather than declining prices ? Secretary WIRTZ . It is a fair question . The answer is that although as a practical matter it has always been a tempering factor in wage settlements , the increased productivity in a ...
... productivity rather than declining prices ? Secretary WIRTZ . It is a fair question . The answer is that although as a practical matter it has always been a tempering factor in wage settlements , the increased productivity in a ...
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... productivity ? Secretary WIRTZ . Yes , but I do not want to dilute the concept of the guidelines or guideposts as the Council has laid them down . If I understand your question , it is productivity as a whole which is to be taken into ...
... productivity ? Secretary WIRTZ . Yes , but I do not want to dilute the concept of the guidelines or guideposts as the Council has laid them down . If I understand your question , it is productivity as a whole which is to be taken into ...
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... productivity in this industry has gone up 8 percent ? Secretary WIRTZ . Between 8 and 10. Productivity in the airline industry has gone up between 8 and 10 percent a year . Senator YARBOROUGH . And this wage increase , as suddenly ...
... productivity in this industry has gone up 8 percent ? Secretary WIRTZ . Between 8 and 10. Productivity in the airline industry has gone up between 8 and 10 percent a year . Senator YARBOROUGH . And this wage increase , as suddenly ...
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Page 233 - Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45...
Page 228 - ... (i) affects an entire industry or a substantial part thereof engaged in trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States or with foreign nations, or engaged in the production of goods for commerce; and (ii) if permitted to occur or to continue, will imperil the national health or safety, it shall have jurisdiction to enjoin any such strike or lockout, or the continuing thereof, and to make such other orders as may be appropriate.
Page 233 - If a dispute between a carrier and its employees be not adjusted under the foregoing provisions of this Act and should, in the judgment of the Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service...
Page 227 - The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the disputes within thirty days from the date of this order. As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the...
Page 201 - President, shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend for their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
Page 196 - Do you testify that this strike has resulted in a substantial interruption to interstate commerce such as to deprive sections of the country of essential transportation service? Secretary WIRTZ. Yes, sir. And further, Senator, that finding was, of course. made by the President as a basis for the invoking of the Railway Labor Act.
Page 228 - Whenever in the opinion of the President of the United States, a threatened or actual strike or lock-out affecting an entire industry or a substantial part thereof engaged in trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States or with foreign nations, or engaged in the production of goods for commerce, will, if permitted to occur or to continue, imperil the national...
Page 210 - Secretary WIRTZ. Yes ; I think it is. Senator MURPHY. I have one other question which I think you have answered. This is from the Economic Report of the President. It says: "Federal budgetary and monetary policies must not permit a generalized excess of demand over supply to pull up prices. Equally, private prices and wage decisions must not push up costs and prices.
Page 233 - ... and that •the Code's reversal of the rule was unsound. The point, 1 must say, has never really seemed to me to be of great importance. It is one of those points on which it is well to have a rule, and a clear rule. The difficulty of the Trust Receipts Act was that it had no rule on that point, but it does not seem to me to make a great deal of difference really which of the two rules you adopt, the first-to-file rule, as in Article 9 or the first-to-make-the-advance rule, as under the Donn...
Page 205 - These disputes, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive a section of the country of essential transportation services. NOW, THEREFORE, by...