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BUSINESS Effbtrs At rr-sr.- 20 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Sat.. Dec. 18. 1982 BUSINESS Take a door tour Did missing mom Were voters In Manchester live in town? just ignored? . page 6 Labor-management . page 11 .. .page 3 A. -4/7C Iowa construction industry, a new approach is cutting costs, saving time, benefiting all Manchester, Conn. dy James Kay UNICON had a few other projects prise one of the two problems that More light snow United Press International following completion of the civic most often lead to work stoppages. Monday, Dec. 20, 1982 center — including construction of Stroh .said. The other is contract dis­ tonight, Tuesday Single copy 25(t DES MOINES. Iowa (UPll - The an altar for Pope John Paul IPs visit putes. — See page 2 image is familiar: to Des Moines in October. 1979 — Unions, the memorandum lUrralb Representatives of management but the concept slowed to the point stipulates, must pledge "that no and labor glare at one another where most in the industry forgot picketing or strikes will be used to across a negotiating table Each about it settle jurisdictional disputes." side, distrusting of the other, makes Then competition from nonunion Labor also must pledge there will be pie-in-the-sky demands and companies bred new interest in no "illegal work stoppages and il­ counterdemands Perhaps, even- I' N I C O N . Stroh said the legal strikes." tuaiiy. strikes bring work to a grin­ organization's 10-member board of The memorandum also includes a ding halt directors. had to discern what at­ half-dozen joint contractor-union Such .scenarios have been played tractions nonunion work held for stipulations The UNICON idea has sparked in­ Congress inches out since iabor first organized more prospective buyers. than a halfcentury ago. But at least "The first thing was cost." he terest in other parts of the nation. one partnership bet\yeen manage­ said "The second was the bad Stroh said, partially in respon.se to ment and labor has been forged reputation of the unions ' an advertisement the organization sinie then and the result has. thus Therefore, one of the primary placed in Midwest editions of the far. proved to be a tmiesaving. cost- goals of UNICON. according to Wall Street Journal following com­ effectve alliance based in central Benshoof. is to improve the image of pletion of WHO's new building in UP! photQi toward a close Iowa the trade union, which he says has downtown Des Moines. I NICON - The United Com­ been portrayed as the main culprit Stroh .said, however, the adver­ COOL EYE GLASSES SHOW UP BLACK IN THINFRARED print,” said White House spokesman WASHINGTON (UPI) - because the lawmakers are anxious mittees of Labor and Management in.labor unrest. UNICON represents tisement was intended primarily to Honeywell’s Electro-Optics Operation converts heat Into electric signals Peter Roussel. Congress, working toward adjourn­ to get home ifor Christmas and - was founded in Ues Moines in the 150 construction firms and nearly 4.- attract business and industry to Des But Senate Appropriations Com­ ment, approved an emergency fun­ because numerous agencies have late 1970s. faded away and recently 000 workers, so an improvement in Moines, hinged on the selling point been technically unable to spend mittee Chairman Mark Hatfield, R- was rekindled in what officials of image would be far-reaching. that the city had few labormanage- ding bill that was shorn of any public works jobs so President Reagan money since the last emergency fun­ Ore., predicted Reagan would sign the coalition describe as a Benshoof notes there never has ment difficulties because of it, saying, “The signals seem to be would sign, it but which denied him ding bill expired at midnight Friday. pragmatic, apoliticai alternative to been y picket on a UNICON job. UNICON. m green, seem to be go.” traditionai obstacies in the con­ while Stroh estimated that perhaps The advertisement includes a full production funds for the MX ALL THESE special bills are struction industry 90 percent of the normal on-the-job blurb for The Bureau of Economic missile. needed because Congress has passed rilE CONFERENCE gave the in­ I'N'ICON is an alliance of 17 cen­ disputes that arise during most con­ Development in the Des Moines The bill is the last absolutely only seven of the 13 re ^ Ia r ap­ coming Congress a Christmas gift tral Iowa trade unions working with struction jobs are settled before Chamber of Commerce, which necessary business of the 97th propriations bills for the fiscal year by making the funding bill effective management under an agreement ever reaebing arbitration. claims some of UNICON's goals are Congress, which is anxious to leave that began last Oct. 1. through the end of the fiscal year town for some rest and to make way Sept. 30, in effect not saddling the that guarantees certain worker "This is still in the embryonic similar to its own. EFFBtrS But few major disruptions were for the new, more Democratic 98th new Congress with the old one’s rights’ in exchange tor a pledge from stage, but I think UNICON has given "It's an image-building thing." expected because the legislation is Congress that will convene at noon problems: labor not to walk off the job. everyone involved a social con- said Mark Threlkeld. director of so near ready. Under thi.s- Memorandum of economic development. "We'll con- EST Jan. 3. A House-Senate conference com­ The denial of MX funds was a .science." Stroh said. "We re aware SUPER SANTA blow to Reagan, although the con­ Understanding ' U.MCON projects 01 each other's problems. The lines lact companies by mail or in face- The Senate, meeting late into Sun­ mittee late Sunday finally reached have been completed without work an agreement that bowed to ference left open the possibility of ol communication are open, to-face meetings (about moving to day night, also broke a filibuster stoppages UMCON's most recent Reagan’s demand that a public allowing purchase of some missiles whereas before they were atrocious Des Moines I and they 'll think. 'I've that has blocked a 5 cents-a-gallon .|oh — the construction of a mul- works jobs provision be removed for testing. or non-existent" seen something else on Des Moines SALE gasoline tax increase, but there was timillion dolar broadcast center lor recently. What was that?"' a question whether there was time from the bill. The compromise plan calls for VVHO-TV. WHO-AM. and KLVE-F.M The rapport between labor and Unemployment in the construc­ to pass it before the weary The White House initially reacted Congress to provide $2.5 billion in in Des Moines — was finished two management Inherent to UNICON tion industry remains high. and Congress trudges home. cautiously to the passage of the fun­ research and development money months ahead of schedule -ended the traditional "polarization " Nationwide, it stood at 22.6 percent The rare Saturday and Sunday ding measure despite the absence of only, pending congressional ap­ "This IS like motherhood, the flag between the two groups. Stroh said. in September with more than 1.17 sessions were necessary both a jobs bill. “We want to read the fine proval of a basing plan submitted by and apple pie." says UMCON co- Prior- to UN'ICON's formation, he million construction workers the president. However, during the chairman Charles Stroh. chairman .said, the only time management and without jobs. That compares to the research and development phase of ol the Stroh Corporation. "It's labor met was when contracts September. 1981. rate of 16.3 percent the program, several missiles would mutuallv benelicial expired and negotiations began. and 852.000. be produced for testing, although Stroh represents management at "This clo.se liai.son has been the Stroh said he could not claim offers these there could be no test flights until White House Congress approves a basing plan. U.NICON .lack Benshoof. president key. " Stroh said We've gone from UNICON was putting unemployed ol the Central Iowa Building an adversary relationship to a construction workers back on the The compromise also provides the Construction Trade Council, working relationship. We found job. But he said the time-saving, first dual pay system in con­ represents labor there was a lot more common cost-effective format of UNICON CHRISTMAS gressional history. House members The UMCON c oncept, which was ground than areas where "there was could attract businesses ^n d in­ would get a 15 percent pay raise, based I oose I v on sim ilar disagreement ' dustry to central Iowa, which in turn still cautious from $60,662 to $69,800, while Senate oig:ini/alions in St. Louis and The Memorandum of Understan­ could take construction workers off SAVINGS! salaries would be frozen. In return, Columbus. Ohio, was born when con­ ding " is the cornerstone of the unemployment. senators could earn as much outside struction ot the Des Moines Civic organization's labor-management Stroh described today's EXCLUSIVE 2 YEAR income as they want, while House Center came to a halt in 1979 Funds partnership. It stipulates that con­ businesses looking to build new members would have a 30 percent raised lor construction of the S9.6 limit. E tractors. among other things, "shall facilities as "sharp buyers " who PARTS & LABOR COLOR TV WARRANTY on funding bill million building had run out. exert every effort to make work recognize the "imrhediate advan­ FUNDING FOR the controversial To complete the project, construc­ assignments to the proper craft to tages " of getting top professional Clinch River breeder nuclear reac­ tion workers agreed to donate half a eliminate jurisdictional disputes ' plumbers, electricians and FREE COLOR SET UP WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi­ “ We want to read the fine print,” tor in Tennessee also would con­ day s wages, with the total amount Jurisdictional disputes — those in­ sheetmetal workers while incurring dent Reagan today awaited final ac­ spokesman Peter Roussel said.
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