INCREASED WAGES
FORD COMPANY’S OFFER UNACCEPTABLE TO UNION Detroit. Dec. 18. The Ford Motor Co. has offered the L’ni ed Automobile Workers 15 cent an hour increase, to be effective when production reaches 80.000 vehicles a month. The company said the increase was 12 2-5 per cent over Ford’s present average wage and approximately 22 per cent, over the average wage of their major competitors. Theoretically the company could ask the Government to raise the ceiling prices to cover the wage increas”. but it would be unwise to go that road at present, because Government policy was based on the belief that onlv rigid abherence to ceiling prices would preVent inflation. That put the problem up tn the Ford Co. *W? have no alternative but to take a gamble involving 33,000.000 dollars in extra wages.’’ said th° statement. The company made the offer subject to certain considerations involving the elimination of unauthorised stoppages of work and reduction of the number of un : on committeemen. A spokesman for the United Automobile Workers sa d th'* offer was ■n-fpr it 1 -•- ■ he union.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 303, 24 December 1945, Page 5
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