Author(s): Vernon H. Jensen
Edition: First
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 1974
Language: English
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Pages: 478
City: London
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Books by Vernon H. Jensen
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To Esther
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
A Model for a Yardstick
An Overview, or Prejudgment, of Collective Bargaining in the Industry
The Industry-Its Functions and Some Interrelationships
The Port of New York and Its Changing Character
Economic Realities Affecting Labor Relations
Government Organizations in the Industry
The ILA-Its Organization
The NYSA-Organization of Employer
2 The Strike in 1945: The First Revolt
The Insurgents from Local 791
The Return to Work
The Arbitration Award
Conclusions
3 Overtime-on-Overtime
The Background of tbe Dispute in 1948
Taft-Hartley
The Strike
The Legislative Battle
4 The Strike in 1951: Challenge of the Rank and File
The Opening of Negotiations
Tbe Wildcat Strike
The Board of Inquiry and Its Recommendations
5 Challenge of Government: The Crime Commission Investigation
The Investigation
The Commission's Report
Reactions of the ILA
Expulsion of the ILA from the AFL
Confused Collective Bargaining
The Waterfront Commission
6 Challenge of the Labor Movement: lnterunion Conflict
The NLRB
Between Election Events and the Second Election
7 Intercurrence: Bargaining, the Waterfront Commission, and Hiring
Proposed Changes in Hiring Regulations
Collective Bargaining - Hiring Practices
New Hiring Regulations of the Waterfront Commission
Customs and Practices Agreements
Refusal to Work Short Gangs
Citizens' Waterfront Committee
8 Grievance Handling
The Labor Relations Committee
9 Negotiations in 1956: Was It Comedy?
Demands for Coastwide Bargaining
The ILA's Approach to the AFL-CIO
Back to Bargaining
Federal Mediators
The ILA "Package"
"Three Years of Industrial Peace"
The ILA Counterproposals
Stalemate
The Mediators' Settlement
The Agreement
10 Seniority: Protecting Jobs
Arbitration of Seniority
11 Specter of Automation: Bargaining, 1959
The Controversy over Containers
Union Difficulties
Negotiations
The Strike and Taft-Hartley
Reaching an Agreement
Agreements and Disagreements on Automation
12 Was It Collective Bargaining?
Gleason, Anastasia, and Bowers-Union Difficulties
Coastwide and Local Bargaining
Money and Productivity
Tbe Mediators Enter
The Taft-Hartley Board
Federal Mediators Again
Wirtz Enters
The Strike Renewed
The Presidential Board - Mediation or Arbitration?
13 The Department of Labor Study and the Next Round
The Struggle for Union Leadership
Waterfront Commission Regulations and Seniority
The Department of Labor Study
Negotiations - Flexibility aud Guaranteed Wages
The 1964 Agreement
14 Guaranteed Income - the GAI
Legislative Action in New York
The GAI and the Seniority System
Computer Hiring
The Labor Force and Seniority
Kheel's Arbitration on Debiting
15 Bargaining and the Container Revolution
The Labor Shortage in Port Newark
Waterfront Commission Hearing on Labor Shortage
The Commission Opens the Register
The Turkus Award and the ILA-NYSA Supplemental Agreement
The Commission Objects
The Negotiations
The NYSA Counterproposal
The Revised Proposal
The Deadline - Agreement Almost Reached
16 Would Settlement Never Come?
Cole Mediates
The New Offer Rejected
Gleason, tbe Vice-Presidents, and the Outports
An Oral Agreement for New York - $1.60
The Outports Object
17 The 1969 Settlement and Negotiations in 1971
The Settlement of 1969
lLA and ILWU Rapprochement
Preparations in CONASA, Gleason, and the Reorganization of the NYSA
Nixon's "Phase l" and Early Negotiations
Tbe West Coast Strike - Taft-Hartley
The Pay Board and East and West Coast Settlements
18 Denouement
The Bargaining Process as Followed by the ILA and the NYSA
Bargaining Structure
The Role of Government
The Waterfront Commission
The Labor Market
The Longshoremen in the Port of New York
The Key to the Future
Selected Bibliography
Books, Monographs, and Special Occasional Papers
Background
Concurrent with the Period of the Study
Articles in Periodicals
Newspapers and Periodicals
Principal Sources
Others
Government Publications and Materials
Local and State Government Publications
United States Government Publications
Private Reports and Documents
Index
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