Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum
General Category => Willys Forum => Topic started by: pnw_oldmags on April 12, 2019, 06:31:38 PM
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During last year's Convention, Rick Kamen handed me a Willys-Overland Union Contract Booklet from late 1951 for scanning and posting to CIRCLEKF.COM. I finally got it done. It contains some interesting topics. Boy have things changed.
http://circlekf.com/sourceslide.php?pub=WO&typ=BO&nbr=010&pag=1
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That's a really nice find. quite a document and a nice look back at how things were done. Unions in general have changed a lot, and quite often, not for the better.
Suffice it to say, in spite of union leadership, most of the rank & file trade union guys don't view public sector "unions" as "brothers", or vote lockstep for a particular party, simply not so anymore.
Current union leadership in a lot of cases are struggling to stay relevant while riding a declining entity that they can collect the "taxes" from.
One striking example, when I joined the Plasterers & Cement Masons union in 1980, part of the swearing ceremony after serving a 3 yr apprenticeship was an oath to not join or support any Communist party group. That section is GONE from the charter, and ceremony now.
6 or 8 yrs ago Richard Trumka, head of the AFLCIO, marched in the same labor day parade in DC as a contingent of a communist labor group, something utterly unimaginable when the contract posted above was written.
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During last year's Convention, Rick Kamen handed me a Willys-Overland Union Health and Welfare Booklet from late 1951 for scanning and posting to CIRCLEKF.COM. I finally got it done. It contains some interesting topics. Boy have things changed.
http://circlekf.com/sourceslide.php?pub=WO&typ=BO&nbr=020&pag=1
Max Maternity Benefit -- $100. GULP
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