Wage Calendar, 1977 : Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 1943
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Wage Calendar 1977 Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Wage Calendar 1977 U.S. Department of Labor Ray Marshall, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Julius Shiskin, Commissioner 1977 Bulletin 1943 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $1.40 Stock No. 029-001-01996-3 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 of information on anticipated union contract adjustments in this calendar year. Major situations by company and union are identified in which, during 1977, contracts will terminate, deferred wage increases will become due, changes in the Consumer Price Index will be reviewed, and contracts will be reopened. These data take on added dimensions as timely indicators because of some of the important movements that might be expected in an economy still subject to high unemployment and inflationary pressures. This, bulletin combines articles which appeared in the December 1976 and January 1977 issues of the Monthly Labor Review (with minor revisions) and the Bureau’s listing of major agreements which expire during the year. Each contract covers 1,000 workers or more. Virtually all of these agreements are on file with the Bureau’s Division of Industrial Relations and are open to public inspection. In addition, information was taken from published sources for additional situations where agreements are due to expire. Table 9 lists agreements scheduled to expire in 1977 by month and table 10 arranges them by industry. Tables 11 and 12 present additional information taken from published sources, also by month and industry. Users should refer to appendix A for a list of common abbreviations; to appendix B for codes used in identifying the entries by industry, State, union, and employer unit; and to appendix C for a technical note on the data shown in tables 9-12. Table 13 lists 1977 contract reopenings (for wages, benefits, and working conditions) by month for selected collective bargaining agreements each covering 1,000 workers or more. Expirations that were reported to the Bureau too late to be included in tables 9-12 are listed in table 14. In several instances, tables 9-12 may list agreements and situations where the parties settle in advance of the scheduled expiration date, having been negotiating well before that date. However, they will still be listed under their original expiration dates. Material in this publication is in the public domain and may be reproduced without permission of the Federal Government. Please credit the Bureau of Labor Statistics and cite the name and number of the publication. This bulletin was prepared jointly by Douglas R. LeRoy, in the Division of Trends in Employee Compensation, and Lena W. Bolton, in the Division of Industrial Relations. Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ iii Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Contents Page Bargaining calendar to be heavy in 1977 ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Three key industries...................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Cost-of-living coverage ................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Steel industry .................................................................................................................................. 4 Aluminum and can industries...................................................................................................................................................... 4 Petroleum refining ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Telephone industry ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Longshore industry ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Aerospace industry ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Bituminous coal industry ............................................................................................................................................................ 6 Railroad in d u s try .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Scheduled wage increases and escalator provisions in 1977 13 Deferred increases ........................................................................................................................................................................ 13 Cost-of-living escalators ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 Frequency of review ............................................................................................................................................................... 16 Cost-of-living formulas .......................................................................................................................................................... 17 Tables: 1. Calendar of major collective bargaining activity......................................... 2 2. Major contract expiration and wage reopening dates, by industry ................................................................................ 3 3. Expiration, reopening, and wage adjustment provisions of selected collective bargaining agreements ................... 7 4. Workers receiving deferred wage increases in 1977, by major industry and size of increase..................................... 14 5. Workers receiving deferred wage increases in 1977 in bargaining units covering 1,000 workers or more, by month ............................................................................................................................................................................... 15 6 . Workers receiving deferred wage and benefit increases in 1977 in bargaining units covering 5,000 workers or more, by size of in cre ase................................................................................................................................................. 16 7. Prevalence of escalator clauses in major collective bargaining agreements, November 1976 ..................................... 17 8 . Timing of cost-of-living reviews in major contracts expiring in 1977 and later years ................................................ 18 9. Collective bargaining agreements expiring in 1977 covering 1,000 workers or more, by month ............................ 19 10. Collective bargaining agreements expiring in 1977 covering 1,000 workers or more, by industry ......................... 31 11. Additional collective bargaining situations expiring in 1977 covering 1,000 workers or more, by month ............ 45 12. Additional collective bargaining situations expiring in 1977 covering 1,000 workers or more, by industry ......... 52 13. Selected agreements reopening in 1977 covering 1,000 workers or more, by m o n th ................................................ 62 14. Late listing of agreements expiring in 1977 covering 1,000 workers or more, by m o n th ......................................... 64 Appendixes: A. Common abbreviations .......................................................................................................................................................... 67 B. Definition of codes ................................................................................................................................................................. 68 C. Explanatory n o te ...................................................................................................................................................................... 74 Digitized for FRASER v 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 to be Heavy in 1977 As in the previous year, a large number of two-fifths of the workers covered by expiring con major collective bargaining agreements (those cov tracts. ering 1,000 workers or more) will expire in 1977. Heavy bargaining in the construction industry Collective bargaining in 1977 will start within the begins in April, covering 173,000 workers. An addi context of a continued slow recovery from the 1975 tional 154,000 workers negotiate in May, with talks recession, the worst since the 1930’s. Although em peaking in June, when 325,000 workers will be un ployment currently approaches record levels, the der expiring contracts. The remaining