WHIOffice and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO and CLC

No. 321 April, 1973 175 in Illinois Canadian breakthrough win escalator An across-the-board 400 an hour wage increase plus a cost- of-living escalator were obtained in a one-year contract nego- Initial contract for 500 tiated by Local 221, in Gales- burg, Ill., for its 175-member unit at Gale Products, a division of Outboard Marine Corp. Local 221 President Stanton brings four-day week Luker reports that the new agreement runs to March 9, An initial contract negotiated across - the - board increase in paid 50%), in addition to its The campaign to organize 1974. It sets a starting month- by Montreal Local 57 for its each year, with semi-annual ad- pension plan contributions. This the employees lasted almost ly minimum salary of $609 in new 500-member bargaining justments to bring the commis- will provide 2% per month for two years, during which the the lowest office classification, unit at the Quebec Construction sion's employees in 15 provin- each year of service, based on OPEIU made repeated repre- rising to a $685 maximum. It Industry Commission has in- cial offices up to parity with the best five pay years prior to sentations to the Quebec gov- calls for a starting minimum of troduced the four-day week for those in Montreal, where a $70 retirement, in addition to social ernment to grant them collective $770 in the top grade, rising to Canadian white collar em- per week pay differential existed security. The union is coowner bargaining rights. The campaign $903 per month. The cost-of- ployees in a union contract for prior to unionization. and cosigner of these plans. was a combined effort by the living allowance provides a 1¢ the first time, OPEIU Vice Pres- Under the agreement, office The pact provides unlimited OPEIU Eastern Canada Coun- an hour increase for each 0.4 ident Romeo Corbeil reports. messengers will earn $108 per sick leave. In case of lengthy cil and Local 57 officers and point change in the Consumer It establishes four 81/2 -hour week, typists $138, inspectors illness, the employer pays the representatives across the prov- Price Index, with a 6¢ top. days for inspectors, and a 321/2 - $251, and those in the Group first full week's pay, the remain- ince. Its success was due to their Alan D. Stephenson headed hour week (five 61/2 -hour days) Leader classification $303. Oth- ing absence is covered by the efforts in selling OPEIU's mer- the OPEIU negotiating team for 350 clericals with no reduc- er outstanding gains are six health-welfare plan. It also calls its as bargaining agent for white which included Elaine Morss, tion in pay. In addition, the statutory holidays annually, plus for a union shop, dues checkoff, collar employees. Deloris Sparling and Gary King. three-year pact calls for a 5% time off with pay for the period job posting, and doubletime for The unit numbered 430 when between Christmas Eve and Jan- any overtime in excess of four it was recognized, but has since uary 2. Employees required to hours. grown to 500. Eastern Canada New bank in Washington work on holidays will be entitled Approximately 250 employ- Council Representative Gilles to 31/2 times the regular rate. ees get rented cars paid for by Beauregard and Local 57 Rep- opens with union label Pay in the top grade comes close the employer for year-round resentative Jacques Leboeuf, to $10 per hour in the third business and personal use, with who were active in the organiz- Seeking organized labor's sup- tion, and a 15-minute break year. $10 to $15 weekly expenses for ing campaign, led the negotiat- port, the newly-established Com- after each four hours of work. Vacations are liberalized to those with regular routes. Those ing team which consummated Currently, the bank is open munity Bank of Renton, Wash- provide two weeks after one required to operate outside their the agreement without recourse a contract from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Thurs- ington State, signed year; three after seven; and four regular routes receive an addi- to mediation or conciliation. with Tacoma Local 23 calling days and Fridays, and from 9 after 20. An unusual vacation tional 40 per mile. for a starting minimum hiring a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays to feature is a special bonus, with The Quebec Construction In- rate about $90 a month higher service employees from nearby employees to get four weeks pay dustry Commission was set up than that paid by other banks in Boeing plants. after seven years; five after 10; by the provincial government to Local 12 unit the area, OPEIU Vice President The agreement also provides six after 15, and seven weeks insure that construction workers Bill Lowe reports. two weeks of paid vacation after after 20. get the wages and working con- moves up 11.5% The new bank, which opened one year. Additional vacation The employer agreed to pay ditions negotiated in contracts on March 1, is the first bank full Across-the-board wage raises benefits will be negotiated in fu- the $33.50 per month cost by their various unions, and to chartered by the state in Renton for health-welfare and insurance totaling 111/2 % over two years, ture agreements, as well as administer their vacation and in 50 years. The OPEIU con- coverage (previously employees pension plans. together with improved health- health and medical insurance. tract calls for a $433 starting welfare benefits, were gained by monthly minimum, rising to The one-year contract expires Twin Cities Local 12 for its unit $450 in six months and $470 on Feb. 25, 1974. Growing N.J. bank unit at Fund Administrative Asso- after one year. Local 23 Sec.-Treas. Floyd ciates of Minnesota, Inc., in St. It sets a 40-hour workweek, Kerschner says that Washington Paul. The company administers with premium pay for overtime labor councils already have be- wins wage, fringe gains health and welfare funds. and shift differentials, grievance gun to patronize the bank with Across - the - board salary Since being unionized, the Business Manager H. R. procedures and binding arbitra- the union label. boosts totaling some $1,500 per bank unit has grown by 33%, Markusen reports that the wage member, plus improved em- the result of a merger with a boosts are 5% in the first year ployer-paid pension and health- Hackensack bank. Reports are and 51/2 % six months later in welfare plans, were gained in a that Hudson-United plans fur- the second. A 25¢ an hour in- crease was gained for temporary two-year contract signed by Lo- ther expansion aggressive employees. cal 142 for its growing 200 - through mergers and the open- member unit at Hudson-United A greatly improved health- ing of new branches. Bank in Union City, N.J., Busi- welfare program, with major ness Manager Zach Schneider The OPEIU negotiating team medical added, was also ob- reports. was headed by Chief Steward tained, as well as new provisions The first year $7 per week Patricia Kelly and included Wal- governing job bidding and pro- increase is supplemented by a ter Wallach, Jerry Massa, Eliza- motions. The pact is retroactive $2.50 cost-of-living allowance, beth Mewees, June Luecktens to August 1 and runs to Decem- retroactive to March 1. The sec- and Lucille Orenstein. ber 31, 1974. ond-year increase is $6. The cost-of-living allowance will be adjusted semi-annually, based on the New York-New Jersey Staff to confer June 15-16 index. Other gains are an improved The annual conference of full-time representatives has pension plan, and a new insur- been scheduled for June 15-16. It will take place at the Courtesy John Van Decanter. King County Scanner Sheraton-Mt. Royal in Montreal, Canada, directly before the The ance carrier providing increased new Community Bank of Renton opens its door as a union shop. meeting of the OPEIU Executive Board. At opening ceremony are, from left, OPEIU Vice President Bill Lowe, medical-hospital care coverage, Local 23 Sec.-Treas. Floyd Kerschner, Bank President Bob Olson and together with major medical, all Further details to be announced. Washington State AFL-CIO Representative Kenneth Bowman. paid for by the employer. Page Two WHITE COLLAR April, 1973

WHITE COLLAR Official Organ of OFFICE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION affiliated with the AFL-CIO, CLC HOWARD COUGHLIN J. HOWARD HICKS President Secretary-Treasurer Room 610, 265 West 14th St., New York, N. Y. 10011 POSTMASTERS, ATTENTION. Change of address Form 3579 should be addressed to Office and Professional Employees International Union, 1012 14th St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20005.

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Unionized banks deserve union members' NEW UNITED FUND PACT in Baltimore, Maryland brings Local 2 members annual wage increases patronage of 12 percent and 7 percent, two more holidays and fully paid major medical insurance protection. Sign- As an example of enlightened bank management we cite the ing are, from left, Pension Administrator Douglas Williams, International Representative Dan McShain, Shop Steward Louise Long, and United Fund of Central newly-established Community Bank of Renton, in the state of negotiating team members Shirley Napoli and Director H. Allen Larsen. Washington, which signed an OPEIU contract with Local 23 in Maryland Executive Tacoma even before it opened its doors for business. We hope that OPEIU members, as well as labor organizations and all union-card holders in that area, will open deposit accounts with the new unionized bank. Pact scores for new Madison unit We urge similar support for the National Bank of Washington, D.C., which has signed its first contract with Local 2. Why should union members patronize banks hostile to their in- terests when they can transfer deposits and other banking business to friendly unionized banks paying living wages and providing decent working conditions for their employees? The Texas AFL-CIO is studying the possibility of opening a wholly-owned and union-controlled bank in its new headquarters building in Austin, which it plans to construct later this year. A high-ranking Texas AFL-CIO official summarized the logic of this proposal when he said: "The way it is now, unions and their members put their money in the banks, and then the banks turn around and use our own At signing of first Local 39 pact with CUNADATA Corp. are from left, OPEIU Midwest Council Repre- money against us. With our own bank, we could remedy this sentative Bill Cox, Shop Steward Phil Miller, Local 39 President Marion Sachtjen, CUNADATA Man- situation." ager Tom Tess, and John Waggoner, CUNADATA Counsel. We believe the Texas proposal merits serious study by all AFL- CIO federations in the other 49 states. In this and other countries, An initial contract signed by grade, rising to $467.95 after hour workweek, a 5% wage labor-owned and controlled banks are already highly successful. Local 39 for its new bargaining two years, Local 39 President differential for second and third The National Bank of Washington, D.C., is one example. The unit at CUNADATA Corpora- Marion Sachtjen reports. In the shifts, with doubletime for Sun- Amalgamated Bank of New York is another. tion in Madison, Wis., sets a top category, the starting rate is day work. It calls for nine paid Instead of fighting bank unionism, enlightened bankers should be monthly minimum starting rate $682.70, rising to $738.39. holidays; two weeks vacation wooing organized labor. The more than 20-million union members of $413.41 in the lowest office The pact provides a 371/2 - after one year; three after five, in the U.S. and Canada represent lots of financial muscle. and four after 18. Sick leave of one day per A union card is the quickest L.A. settlement cuts month is cumulative to 65 work- ing days. The contract runs for route to equal pay for women workweek to 3 5 hours one year, from Jan. 1, 1973 to A workweek reduced to 35 252 days or 75% pay for 56 Dec. 31, 1974. No matter whether working women have a high school or college hours from 40, wage boosts ret- days, for those with 30 years of diploma, they earn only about half the pay of their male counter- roactive to July 1, 1972, an service. Accrued but unused parts in similar occupations, the U.S. Census Bureau finds in a initial pension plan and other sick leave will be paid at date Hospital gain study of 1970 census data. improved fringe benefits were of termination. wage boost The report, entitled "Earnings by Occupation and Education," gained by Local 30 in a first The OPEIU negotiating team A $6.40 weekly shows that working women with a high school education earned a two-year contract negotiated for was headed by Local 30 Busi- across-the-board, retroactive to median income of $5,067 in 1969, only 56% of the $9,067 earned its new unit at Los Angeles City ness Representative Bill Rob- July 1, was gained in a contract by men of equivalent age and education. Employees Assn., Local 660. erts, assisted by unit members negotiated by Local 95 for its Women with four years of college, working full-time, earned a The agreement was ratified George Gaffy, Dorothy Skinner, office unit at Riverview Hospi- median salary of $7,238, about 55% of the $13,103 earned by unanimously by unit members. Theola McCool and Menjou tal in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. their male counterparts. In another category, women computer Brown. The pact expires next Dec. 31. specialists earned $8,531 in 1969, just about 75% of that earned Local 30 Business Manager by men. Gwen Newton reports that the The difference in earnings between the sexes also is evident employees received retroactive among the different races. For example, earnings of white women payments ranging from $150 to with a high school education were $5,106 in 1969, compared with $780 to bring them up to the $9,187 for white men. Black women earned $4,565 while black newly-negotiated wage scales. men earned $7,041, the report discloses. Second-year wage increases ef- In all 24 professional positions listed by the report, men were fective July 1, 1973, may be shown to earn substantially more than women. allocated at the union's option Leaders of the women's rights movement have pushed for adop- to salary, health-welfare, dental tion of a constitutional amendment to guarantee women equal or pension plans. rights, contending that it will help close the earnings gap between The employer began contrib- the sexes. However, approval of the amendment this year seems uting $10 per week to Local unlikely since only 28 states out of a required 38 have ratified it. 30's Pension Plan on January Eleven other states have either defeated or buried the amendment. 1, 1973. The employees had no At its last convention, the Office & Professional Employees In- retirement program previously. ternational Union pledged its fullest support to bona fide organized also nine women's groups in their fight for equal pay in offices and profes- The contract provides sional occupations where they perform similar work with men. paid holidays, plus all state and Their goal and ours is identical. federal election days. FARAH STRIKERS' CHILDREN REMEMBERED: Local 30 mem- But we submit that women can reach this goal soonest by join- In addition to 12 days sick ber Barbara Nardella, who is also Secretary of the Los Angeles Union ing the OPEIU, thus gaining equal pay written into a union con- leave annually, the pact provides Label Council, presents a package of gifts for children of Farah strik- tract fully enforceable in the courts. We are confident that more a supplemental system of par- ers donated by OPEIU members. More than $90,000 was received office women will grasp this solution to their problem, now more tially paid sick leave, at the em- during Christmas at the El Paso office of the Amalgamated Clothing acute than ever before because of soaring inflation. ployee's option, of 50% pay for Workers, from all over the nation, in support of the strikers. April, 1973 WHITE COLLAR Page Three

More than 90 delegates from four provinces attended the annual meet- ing of OPEIU's Eastern Canada Council, at Talisman Motor Inn, in Ottawa, Ont. Director of Organization Art Lewandowski was among L.A. local certified without election the speakers at the final session of the three-day conference. An anti-union employer in sel, after gruelling cross-ex- Miss Jameson will also receive Los Angeles threw in the towel amination of witnesses was un- $500 for medical expenses in- when courageous female office able to shake their testimony, curred as a result of an accident 161/2% advance achieved employees, seeking OPEIU asked for a recess to discuss a before she was fired. The com- representation, corroborated settlement. pany further agreed to remove for Fort Worth unit charges by Local 30 they all warning notices from the per- that Business Manager Gwen Across-the-board wage in- Day now becomes a paid holi- had been intimidated and threat- sonnel files of Marilyn Manzi Newton reports that in a stipu- creases totaling 161/2 % over day making the annual total Elvira Arguelles, two other ened, and that two had been dis- lated settlement, the employer and three years, an additional paid nine. charged an organizing employees who had been threat- during agreed to cease and desist from holiday, a new pension plan and In addition to the new pen- ened with loss of their jobs. campaign last fall. future anti-union activities and other improved fringe benefits, sion plan, the company also The dramatic climax came in to bargain in good faith with The settlement contains a were gained in a contract nego- agreed to improve insurance the second day of a hearing on Local 30. He also agreed to provision for enforcement in the tiated by Local 277 for its office coverage for employes and de- the unfair labor practice charges reinstate and pay the two dis- U.S. Court of Appeals, the em- unit at Weber Aircraft, Fort pendents, paying all costs as against Central Bag & Supply charged employees, Judy Tan- ployer waiving all defense to the Worth, Tex. well as those for weekly disabil- Company before NLRB Admin- zawa and Ann Jameson, lost entry of judgment against him Local 277 President-Business ity coverage. istrative Law Judge Leo Light- wages totaling $1,642.18 for the in the event of non-compliance. Manager J. B. Moss says the An improved vacation plan ner, when the for the latter. company's coun- former and $349 An unusual feature of the 120 cost-of-living allowance was also gained with new lan- case is that Local 30 has now from the old contract was frozen guage inserted on overtime as- 9.5% increase tops gains been certified by the NLRB as into the basic pay scale with signments, part-time employees, bargaining agent - without an the COL continued. Memorial and seniority rights. election-based on the "Gissel" at Westfield arms firm decision. This established the precedent that when a union Twin A 91/2 % across-the-board wage raise, two additional paid holi- has a majority of signed cards Cities agreement days and improved health-welfare and life insurance coverage in a unit, but when an employer were gained in a two-year contract renewal negotiated by Local destroys that majority by mas- boosts 228 for its unit at Savage Arms, health benefits sive acts of intimidation an Across-the-board wage gains manufacturer of sport firearms, $500 for each employee in life Rights Commission and another election need not be held, and totaling 11 % over two years, in Westfield, Mass. The com- insurance coverage, increased on separability. the employer must then recog- together with greatly improved employer contribution for Blue The maternity benefit (room pany is a Division of Emhart nize and bargain with the union. health-welfare benefits, were Cross7Blue Shield coverage, and board) was increased to Corp., Hartford, Conn. Business Representative Bill negotiated by Twin Cities Local and tighter contractural lan- $300 The first wage boost of Roberts presented Local 30's 12 for (from $175); the surgical guage to reduce instances of its office unit at Mid 41/2 % is retroactive to October case. America Mutual Life Insurance benefit to $200 (was $100); dual interpretation by the par- house and office calls to $5 (was 28, and the 5% increase be- ties. Co., Business Manager H. R. comes effective November 1, Markusen reports. $3), and accident and sickness The pact also calls for a joint Vancouver pact to $80 per week (was $60). 1973, International Represen- union-management committee The contract, which runs to Business Representative Jerry tative Justin F. Manning re- to study the existing pension brings 8.1% December 31, 1974, calls for 5.5% increases Schmit headed the OPEIU nego- ports. He said the agreement plan with a view to improving in each of the A new sabbatical vacation two years. New tiating team which included Jean was overwhelmingly ratified it. clauses include policy plus an 8.1% across-the- Harkins, Dana McCarthy after the membership had one on maternity leave conform- and The OPEIU bargaining team board wage increase were gained ing to standards of the Human Michael McKee. turned down two previous was headed by Local 228 Pres- by Local 15 in a one-year con- "final offers" by the company ident Gail Raymond, Vice tract renewal covering its 150 in landslide votes. President Adelle Strycharz, members at C.U. & C. Health The two new paid holidays Sec.-Treas. Catherine Kaste, Services Society in Vancouver, Auto agency units win are the employee's birthday in Rec.-Sec. Dorothy Shannahan, insurance carrier for medical coverage and dental plans for the first year, and the day after and Chief Steward Betty La- the British Columbia Medical plans Thanksgiving in the second. Belle. Manning eye, drug, dental assisted at all Commission. Other gains were an increase of sessions. A $38 per month across-the- The employers ageeed to con- Business Manager Bill Swan- board wage raise, new vision tribute $52.10 per month for son reports that the new vaca- care, prescription drug and den- each employee to the health- New Jersey units move forward tion policy calls for one extra tal plans, and the employee's welfare fund to include major week of vacation for employees birthday added as a paid holi- medical coverage and $5,000 Two-year contracts renegoti- Local 153's Welfare Fund were after five years; two after 10, day making the annual total 10 life insurance, as well as the new ated for employees of Pennwalt increased to $38 per month and three after 15. were gained in a one-year con- dental, drug and vision care plans. Corporation in Homdel and retroactive to Nov. 15, rising Shift premiums were also in- tract by Oakland Local 29 cov- They also agreed to increase Piscataway, N.J., by New York to $40 in the current month. creased to 250 an hour for after- ering office units at three auto pension fund contributions by Local 153 gained 6% across- Other clauses on Saturday work noon; 300 for midnight, and 400 agencies-Val Strough Chevro- $9' per month, a total of $33 the-board wage boosts retroac- let and Dahl Chevrolet in Oak- and bereavement leave were also for all Saturday and Sunday for each employee, and to allow tive to Nov. 15, and 5.5% land and Daily Chevrolet in San improved. shifts. Employees required to sick leave to be used as ma- raises to take effect Nov. 15, Leandro. ternity disability. Business Rep- The OPEIU negotiating work overtime between midnight 1973. team Sr. Represetative resentative Louis A. Celaya and 8:30 a.m. will be entitled Business Business Representative Mike included Chief Shop Steward Joe Nedham reports that the headed the OPEIU negotiators. to doubletime. Goodwin, who led the negotia- Richard Orosz (Homdel Div.); pact sets a minimum starting tors, said the vacation schedule Chief Shop Steward Iris Rugge The OPEIU negotiating team $448 monthly wage in the low- If you move, send your old and also was liberalized adding one (Piscataway Div.); Executive assisting Swanson included Chief est clerical grade. In the top new address, including zip code to: to four vacation days depending Board member Joseph Louden; Steward Lynne Brooks, Peggy classification, the minimum hir- J. Howard Hicks, Sec.-Treas. on length of service. Matt Goodhard and Grace Murray, Margaret Baptis, Linda ing rate is $603, rising to a 1012-14th St., N.W. Washington, Employer contributions to Downer. McGann and Marion Properzi. $753 maximum. D.C. 20005 Page Four WHITE COLLAR April, 1973

from the desk of the

PRESIDENT

Biemiller's revealing testimony It is difficult to read newspapers and periodicals today without encountering the pros and cons of multinational companies and 11.1111, their activities. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are replete with statements of those who favor the ever expanding GHA SIGNS NEW PACT: At ceremony implementing new two-year contract at Group Health Assn. in multinationals. Day by day we read testimony before the Interna- Washington, D.C., are (seated from left) Bennie Walls, associate steward on OPEIU negotiating team; tional Trade Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee advo- Brent Oldham, President of GHA; OPEIU Vice President John P. Cahill, and Shop Steward Nadine Hick- cating control of multinationals or a fairer system of taxes as these man. Standing from left: Jerry Hanson, asst. GHA Executive Director; GHA Comptroller Jimmy Riggs; apply to the international conglomerates. GHA Personnel Director Lyla Jydstrup; GHA 1st Vice President Dorothy J. Youtz, and Asst. Executive Those who think in terms of the security of the United States Director Sam E. Morch. and Canada must have been shocked to learn through testimony, presented by AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller to the Committee, which indicated that the Thor-Delta launch rocket and its entire missile launch system is now in the process of Group Health pact benefits 350 being sold to the Japanese by McDonnell-Douglas, a multinational firm. A 121/4 % wage increase over Other gains are grandparents- days can convert their medical two years, bringing the starting in-law added to the bereavement coverage. Previously, this priv- Biemiller stated that Japanese engineers are being trained at first-year minimum in the lowest clause; supper allowance in- ilege was granted only after one Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and that a prototype office grade well above $100 per creased to $3 (was $2.50); dif- year of service. rocket is under construction in Santa Monica. He said it is expected week, together with numerous ferential for Saturday work Seniority provisions were also that the entire system will be set up on an island west of Japan. fringe benefits, were gained by raised to 20% (was 15%), and improved to give laid off em- Noting that Americans are told the aerospace industry is "se- Local 2 for its 350 members doubletime for Sunday work. ployees available positions in curely ours because it is strong in exports, high in technology and at Group Health Association, in The employer agreed to offer other departments at no reduc- vital to America's national security," Biemiller cited the ominously Washington, D.C. enrollment in several prepaid tion in pay, with the employer clear implications of exporting aerospace, military technology and OPEIU Vice President John dental plans to employees and providing reasonable training in jobs. P. Cahill, Local 2's President- dependents, and to allow a 20% the new job. The two-year pact He described the Thor-Delta system as capable, with little modi- Business Manager, reports that pharmacy discount or to sell the runs to Dec. 31, 1974. fication, of carrying a nuclear warhead in the 1,500-to-5,000-mile a 6% wage hike in the first year items at cost when the discount range, clearly a potentially offensive weapon. Thor-Delta was de- is retroactive to January 1, with would mean a loss. veloped at U.S. taxpayer expense and cost millions of dollars in another 61/4 % boost scheduled It was also agreed that em- research and development funds before it became operational. It for the same 1974 date. ployees leaving GHA after 90 had been used to launch satellites for other nations and the revenue from such launches helped offset the U.S. balance of payments deficit. 1st 12 Military know-how exported pact gets Local Biemiller stated that while the sale of the missile system will have unit off to good start a "one-time" benefit for the U.S. balance of payments, it will ad- versely affect U.S. balance of payments for years to come. He cited Wage raises ranging from $6 to $8.40 a week per individual and numerous other examples of exportation of U.S. military capability reclassifications to higher grades were negotiated in a first contract and technology. by Twin Cities Local 12 for its new 62-member unit of secretaries and clericals at North St. Paul- 1. Since 1971, hardware for the Safeguard anti-missile system Maplewood School District pay full hospital-medical cover- has been assembled in Hong Kong, only a few miles from Red No. 622. age up to $45 monthly for China. Business Manager H. R. Mar- famliy and $16 for single pre- 2. McDonnell-Douglas has licensed Mitsubishi of Japan to build kusen reports that employees miums, as well as those for 91 F-4 fighter planes, the famous Phantom fighter. who earn a Professional Stand- $3,000 life insurance and long- 3. The Northrup Corporation is reported in the press as about ards Certificate from the NAES term disability, in addition to U.S. Price Index will get an additional $5 per Retirement Plan contributions. to license the production of the American F-5E fighter plane in U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Taiwan. Taiwan is expected to export its manufacture of F-5E month. Sick leave is cumulative The pact also includes a ma- New Base 1967=100 at 12 days per year for the first ernity leave clause "subject to 1972 aircrafts to other nations, compounding the loss of U.S. exports February 128.8 two years, and 15 thereafter to such amendment or modification and jobs. March 124.0 a 160-day maximum. More as may be required to comply 4. When Japan wanted the F-107 Starfighter, then built by April 124.8 than half the unit was advanced with any future Federal or State May 124.7 Lockheed in California, it arranged to have it built in Japan. Lock- to a higher grade. laws or regulations which may June 126.0 heed not only shipped over the designs, tools and equipment, but The contract also contains become binding" on both the July 126.5 supplied the supervision needed to train the Japanese workers. provisions for dues check-off, union and employer. August 126.7 Now, Japan has the technology as well as the plane. seniority, job posting, and griev- Assisting in the negotiations September 126.2 5. The Italian Air Force also plans to manufacture the F-104 ance and arbitration procedures. were Business Representative October 126.6 November 126.9 in It calls for 11 paid holidays; two Jerry Schmit, Joyce Ericson, Turin. December weeks vacation after one year; Josie Ziemer and Renee Milker, 127.3 6. Boeing, which has a huge reservoir of laid-off workers in the 1978 three after 10, and four after The pact is retroactive to July 127.7 State of Washington, has entered into an agreement with the Japa- January 15. 1, 1972 and runs to June 30, February 128.6 nese to develop a wide-bodied air bus. While technology will be The school board agreed to 1973. shipped over to Japan from Seattle, the work will be done in Japan by three manufacturers-Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Fuii. Boeing Canadian has also arranged to have this air bus built in Italy. Also under Price Index production in Japan are John B. Garrett, 60 the Sikorsky S-61 helicopter and the Pratt Dominion Bureau of Statistics & Whitney turbofan engine. Many officers and members learned with deep regret of the 1972 Andrew Biemiller charged that there is a direct relationship in sudden death of John B. Garrett, 60. He was a vice president February 187.3 March 187.4 the growth of U.S. multinationals abroad and the monetary crisis. and editor of Merkle Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., which publishes April 188.2 American corporations and multinational banks have huge and White Collar. May 138.3 increasing investments in foreign countries, and they keep their Quiet and unassuming, Garrett was a familiar figure to dele- June 138.6 American dollars abroad to expand their foreign holdings and gates attending OPEIU conventions, where he performed public July , 140.2 often to avoid U.S. taxes on relations and editorial duties. He also took personal charge of August 141.3 their foreign earned profits. 1 here are September 141.8 now about 60 billion American dollars in Europe, and about 20 the publication of White Collar. October 142.0 billion American dollars in Japan. Just a fraction of these billions He had a very strong affection for this union and, in his passing, November 142.3 moved with ease can and do cause monetary problems. Biemiller the OPEIU has lost a valued and worthy friend. We extend our December 148.3 labeled as unfair the tax and other advantages given U.S. multi- sincerest sympathy to his widow and children. 1973 January 144.6 national firms and called for corrective action. February 145.3