In Brooklyn Federal Court, a veteran named Abraham Fishgold, 28, last week won a suit for $94.60 in back pay. Thereby, he lit the fuse of an explosive problem in management-labor relations. The problem: "super-seniority" meaning that an honorably discharged veteran is entitled to his old job, or a similar one, with his old company for at least a year, even though it means firing an employe with greater seniority. Thus, when Welder Fishgold was laid off from Brooklyn's Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. for ten days, while nonveterans with more...
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