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United Automobile Worker
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1944-07-15
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Vol. 8 No. 14
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COY DEWEY RESPONDS
TO SYNTHETIC DRAFT
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Unless
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Register
500 Out of 13,000]
et
NEW
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FOG.
YORK.— Only
500
workers, out of 13,000 former-
ly employed,
Manpower
New
Regulations
Do Not Void Contract Rights
Commission
Manpower
A War
regulation providing priority referral for male workers and a ceiling
on the total number of male workers who may be employed in any
one plant went into effect on a
nation-wide basis, July 1, Victor G.
Reuther, assistant director of. the
UAW-CIO War Policy Division, announced.
The regulation had been in effect in the Detroit area for several
weeks,
In a letter to all UAW-CIO
regional directors and InternaReuther
representatives,
tional
warned that the new regulation
employers
releases
way
in no
from
union
contract
obligations
to rehire laid-off employes, | to
reinstate unjustly discharged emhave
who
employes
or
ployes
been away from the plant on sick
leave, defense leave or any other
type of leave covered by the contract.
HIRING
THROUGH
USES
The new regulation provides that
all male workers ‘shall be hired
henceforth through the USES and
that no employer may hire more
of male
a certain number
than
workers in any given plant.
“Certain WMC area directors, as
well as employers, have interpreted
the ceiling program to deny re-employment or reinstatement of workers whose seniority entitles them to |}
re-employment,” Reuther said.
Policy Division comThe War
plained
of this practice
to the
and has obtained a ruling
WMC
from Vernon A. McGee, deputy executive
director,
who
quoted
a
WMC regulation, which reads:
“Nothing
in
this
regulation
shall be construed to prejudice
existing rights of an employe or
an employer under a collective
bargaining agreement.”
McGee further stated in his letter of explanation that “the WMC
restricts
respect.
no
in
ceiling
the employer’s ability to carry out
an obligation to lay off workers
job
available
to make
in order
entitled to
openings for workers
on the _ basis. of «their
be hired
greater seniority.”
REPORT VIOLATIONS
“If seniority lists, maintained for |
re-employment purposes under col-
lective bargaining agreements, consist of both male and female workers, a War Manpower Commission
ceiling or allowance
employment
program, applicable only to male
employment levels, should not preclude the hiring of male employes
for job opening to which such male
seniority
greater
have
employes
rights than female employes, notfact that such
the
withstanding
hirings may result in the employer’s exceeding his employment ceiling or allowance,” McGee said.
Reuther asked that local unions
representatives
International
and
should “report immediately to the
War Policy Division any instance
regulation or dia WMC
where
rective is being interpreted so as to
nullify the rights of a worker under
his
collective
bargaining
agreement.”
CCF, Canadian Labor,
Scores
Big Victory
REGINA,
Saskatchewan—The
Canadian
Commonwealth
Federation, counterpart in Canada of the
British labor party, has formed the
governprovincial
Saskatchewan
ment as the result of a smashing
victory in recent legislative elections.
. The “liberal” party, which had a
clear majority in the last legislature, has been ousted from office.
are
still drawing
pay checks
at the Brewster
Aeronautical Corporation’s two
big plants at Long Island City
and Johnsville, Pa.
Despite Washington’s fancy
promises, plans for reconversion of the plants to civilian
production, following the Navy
Department’s
cancellation
of
aircraft contracts, are still up
in the air with production—
and pay checks—nowhere
in
sight.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
| SMEAR OF UAW
%
As the Auto Worker goes to
press, the Navy
Department
announces that work will soon
be provided for 2,500 workers
in the Johnsville plant.
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