I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country. — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years. — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants. — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
