After a long and lazy summer of labor-management discussions, the Big Three auto companies offered the United Auto Workers a proposal only two weeks before the Aug. 31 expiration of the contract. It was a wage and benefit package that amounted to 41ยข over the next three years, accepted the union's premise that better retirement and pension benefits are imperative this year, but ignored the U.A.W.'s persistent demands for longer coffee breaks.
Christ & Churchill. As it is expected to in the script, the union turned down the offer, but it did so with such heat and haste as...
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