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Bargaining Calendar 1979 U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics 1979 Bulletin 2024 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Bargaining Calendar 1979 U.S. Department of Labor Ray Marshall, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Janet L. Norwood, Acting Commissioner March 1979 Bulletin 2024 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock Number 029-001-02299-9 ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1979 0 -2 8 1 -4 1 2 (33) Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Preface As in previous years, the Bureau has assembled a variety Tables 1 through 8 summarize data on contract expira of information on anticipated union contract adjustments tions, reopeners, and deferred wage increases by industry, in this calendar year. Major situations by company and month, and other variables. Tables 9 through 12 list agree union are identified in which, during 1979, contracts will ments on file with the Bureau and additional situations (as terminate, deferred wage increases will become due, explained in appendix C) by month and by industry. changes in the Consumer Price Index will be reviewed, and Agreements on file with the Bureau’s Division of Indus contracts will be reopened. These data take on added trial Relations are (with few exceptions) open to public dimensions as timely indicators because of some of the inspection. Material in this publication is in the public important movements that might be expected in an econ domain and may be reproduced without permission of the omy still subject to high unemployment and inflationary Federal Government. Please credit the Bureau of Labor pressures. Statistics and cite Bargaining Calendar 1979, Bulletin 2024. This bulletin combines articles that appear in the Decem Users should refer to appendix A for a list of common ber 1978 and January 1979 issues of the Monthly Labor abbreviations; to appendix B for identification of codes Review (with minor revisions), the Bureau’s fisting of major used in the tables; and appendix C for a technical note on agreements on file expiring in 1979, and additional bar tables 1,2, and 9 through 12. gaining situations compiled from published sources. To This bulletin was prepared jointly by Lena W. Bolton, in gether, these listings represent virtually all major situations the Division of Industrial Relations, and Beth Levin, in the (those covering 1,000 workers or more) scheduled for 1979 Division of Trends in Employee Compensation. expiration. iii Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Contents Page Bargaining in 1979................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Possible union dem ands................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Petroleum refining........................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Trucking........................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Rubber............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies........................................................................................................................ 3 Automobiles..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Farm and construction machinery and equipment................................................................................................................... 9 Scheduled wage increases and escalator provisions in 1979 ..................................................................................... ............... 10 Deferred increases.......................................................................................................................................................................... 10 By industry................................................................................................................................................................................ 10 Cost-of-living reviews..................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Adjustment formulas................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Review timing and indexes..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Tables: 1. Calendar of major collective bargaining activity................................................................................................................... 3 2. Major contract expiration and wage reopening dates, by industry................................................................................... 4 3. Expiration, reopening, and wage adjustment provisions of selected collective bargaining agreements.................... 5 4. Workers receiving deferred wage increases in 1979, by major industry group and size of increase.......................... 11 5. Workers receiving deferred increases in 1979 in bargaining units covering 1,000 workers or more, by month. 11 6. Workers receiving deferred wage and benefit increases in 1979 in bargaining units covering 5,000 workers or more, by size of increase.................................................................................................................................................. 12 7. Prevalence of escalator clauses in major collective bargaining agreements, November 1978........................................ 13 8. Timing of 1979 cost-of-living reviews in major contracts, by year of contract expiration and frequency of review................................................................................................................................................................ 14 9. Collective bargaining agreements expiring in 1979 covering 1,000 workers or more, by m onth............................... 16 10. Collective bargaining agreements expiring in 1979 covering 1,000 workers or more, by industry............................ 22 11. Additional collective bargaining situations expiring in 1979 covering 1,000 workers or more, by month............... 30 12. Additional collective bargaining situations expiring in 1979 covering 1,000 workers or more, by industry.......... 35 13. Selected agreements reopening in 1979 covering 1,000 workers or more, by m onth................................................... 43 14. Late listings of agreements expiring in 1979 covering 1,000 workers or more, by m onth........................................... 44 Appendixes: A. Common abbreviations............................................................................................................................................................. 46 B. Identification of codes............................................................................................................................................................. 47 C. Explanatory n o t e ..................................................................................................................................................................... 51 IV Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Bargaining in 1979 Following a light 1978 bargaining schedule, 1979 in the trucking and automobile industries, lessens will be a busy year for labor and management the need for “catch-up” increases. Bargainers may negotiators. Some of the largest and most sig opt for continuation or improvement of these nificant collective bargaining contracts will expire, clauses, rather than seek substantial wage increas including petroleum refining, trucking, rubber, es. Any Administration program, short of controls, electrical machinery, auto, and farm and construc may become only gradually effective, however, and tion machinery and equipment. About 3.7 million the high rate of inflation during 1978 and the workers are covered by expiring major agree resulting erosion in real earnings advances under ments,1 nearly double the 2 million workers prior agreements could boost 1979 wage demands. covered in 1978, but below the 4 to 5 million Several union leaders have indicated some covered in past heavy bargaining years.2 The specific demands for the 1979 round of bargaining. heaviest bargaining will occur during the spring The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, months (March-June), and in September. which represents petroleum workers, indicated that Except for the oil refining industry,