Strife on the waterfront : the Port of New York since 1945

Full Title Page Books by Vernon H. Jensen Half Title Page lnternational Standard Book Number 0-8014-0789-3 To Esther Preface Contents 1 Introduction A Model for a Yardstick An Overview, or Prejudgment, of Collective Bargaining in the Industry The Industry-Its Functions and Some Interrelationships The Port of New York and Its Changing Character Economic Realities Affecting Labor Relations Government Organizations in the Industry The ILA-Its Organization The NYSA-Organization of Employer 2 The Strike in 1945: The First Revolt The Insurgents from Local 791 The Return to Work The Arbitration Award Conclusions 3 Overtime-on-Overtime The Background of tbe Dispute in 1948 Taft-Hartley The Strike The Legislative Battle 4 The Strike in 1951: Challenge of the Rank and File The Opening of Negotiations Tbe Wildcat Strike The Board of Inquiry and Its Recommendations 5 Challenge of Government: The Crime Commission Investigation The Investigation The Commission's Report Reactions of the ILA Expulsion of the ILA from the AFL Confused Collective Bargaining The Waterfront Commission 6 Challenge of the Labor Movement: lnterunion Conflict The NLRB Between Election Events and the Second Election 7 Intercurrence: Bargaining, the Waterfront Commission, and Hiring Proposed Changes in Hiring Regulations Collective Bargaining - Hiring Practices New Hiring Regulations of the Waterfront Commission Customs and Practices Agreements Refusal to Work Short Gangs Citizens' Waterfront Committee 8 Grievance Handling The Labor Relations Committee 9 Negotiations in 1956: Was It Comedy? Demands for Coastwide Bargaining The ILA's Approach to the AFL-CIO Back to Bargaining Federal Mediators The ILA "Package" "Three Years of Industrial Peace" The ILA Counterproposals Stalemate The Mediators' Settlement The Agreement 10 Seniority: Protecting Jobs Arbitration of Seniority 11 Specter of Automation: Bargaining, 1959 The Controversy over Containers Union Difficulties Negotiations The Strike and Taft-Hartley Reaching an Agreement Agreements and Disagreements on Automation 12 Was It Collective Bargaining? Gleason, Anastasia, and Bowers-Union Difficulties Coastwide and Local Bargaining Money and Productivity Tbe Mediators Enter The Taft-Hartley Board Federal Mediators Again Wirtz Enters The Strike Renewed The Presidential Board - Mediation or Arbitration? 13 The Department of Labor Study and the Next Round The Struggle for Union Leadership Waterfront Commission Regulations and Seniority The Department of Labor Study Negotiations - Flexibility aud Guaranteed Wages The 1964 Agreement 14 Guaranteed Income - the GAI Legislative Action in New York The GAI and the Seniority System Computer Hiring The Labor Force and Seniority Kheel's Arbitration on Debiting 15 Bargaining and the Container Revolution The Labor Shortage in Port Newark Waterfront Commission Hearing on Labor Shortage The Commission Opens the Register The Turkus Award and the ILA-NYSA Supplemental Agreement The Commission Objects The Negotiations The NYSA Counterproposal The Revised Proposal The Deadline - Agreement Almost Reached 16 Would Settlement Never Come? Cole Mediates The New Offer Rejected Gleason, tbe Vice-Presidents, and the Outports An Oral Agreement for New York - $1.60 The Outports Object 17 The 1969 Settlement and Negotiations in 1971 The Settlement of 1969 lLA and ILWU Rapprochement Preparations in CONASA, Gleason, and the Reorganization of the NYSA Nixon's "Phase l" and Early Negotiations Tbe West Coast Strike - Taft-Hartley The Pay Board and East and West Coast Settlements 18 Denouement The Bargaining Process as Followed by the ILA and the NYSA Bargaining Structure The Role of Government The Waterfront Commission The Labor Market The Longshoremen in the Port of New York The Key to the Future Selected Bibliography Books, Monographs, and Special Occasional Papers Background Concurrent with the Period of the Study Articles in Periodicals Newspapers and Periodicals Principal Sources Others Government Publications and Materials Local and State Government Publications United States Government Publications Private Reports and Documents Index Designed by R. E. Rosenbaum. Composed by York Composition Co., Inc., in 11 point linotype Janson, 3 points leaded, with display lines in monotype Bulmer. USA. Monograph examining labour relations, trade unionisation and collective bargaining activities of dockers employed in the port of new york in the period from 1945 to 1971 - covers interunion conflict, strike occurrence, grievance and dispute settlement, the impact of automation on cargo handling techniques culminating in the advent of containerization, issues such as the 'shape-up', seniority and guaranteed wages, the role of the waterfront commission in regulating recruitment, etc. Bibliography pp. 457 to 471 and references [by] Vernon H. Jensen. Bibliography: P. 457-471.