1 Contracts on file with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nov. 1, 1967, execpt where footnote indicates that information is from newspaper source. 2 Interstate unless othewise specified.

3 Unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO, except where noted as independent. 4 Refers to the date the contract is to go into effect, not the date of signing. Where a contract has been amended or modified and the original termination date extended, the effective date of the changes becomes the new effective date of the agreement.

For purposes of this listing, the expiration is the formal termination date established by the agreement. In general, it is the earliest date on which

June 1, 1968; $1.25-$3.50 per week. (In event subway fare is increased to 25 cents, wages will be increased an additional 50 cents per week.)

Mar. 16, 1968; $1 per week (no increases provided for the Banquet Dept., i.e. Extra Waiters, Extra Bartenders, etc.).

termination of the contract could be effective, except for special provisions for termination as in the case of disagreement arising out of a wage reopening. Many agreements provide for automatic renewal at the expiration date unless notice of termination is given. The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 requires that a party to an agreement desiring to terminate or modify it shall serve written notice upon the other party 60 days prior to the expiration date.

Date shown indicates the month in which adjustment is to be made, not the month of the Consumer Price Index on which adjustment is based. • Information is from newspaper account of settlement.

Work Experience of the Population

FORREST A. BOGAN AND EDWARD J. O'BOYLE*

A RISE in manpower requirements during 1966 enabled 1.7 million more men and women than in 1965 to work at year-round full-time jobs. For the first time, the number of persons working the entire year at full-time jobs reached 50 million. Almost half (47 percent) of the advance was among women, who constituted only 40 percent of the annual labor force. The 900,000 increase in year-round full-time employment of men was accompanied by a substantial reduction in the total working full time 27 to 49 weeks during the year. For women, however, the expansion was part of a rise in the number who started to work during the year; the number of women who worked full time for less than half the year also increased during 1966. As in other years, a much smaller proportion of Negro than white workers were employed at full-time jobs all year; between 1965 and 1966 this gap did not narrow significantly.1

Part-time employment also expanded during the year. About 16 million persons worked at part-time jobs in 1966, over 600,000 more than during the previous year. About three-fourths of this increment, particularly among the women, were persons who worked year round.

These developments largely explain the reduction in unemployment during 1966. The number of persons who had 1 week or more of joblessness during the year fell by 750,000 to 11.4 million. The number of men with unemployment during the year dropped by 11 percent and was largely attributable to the continuing demand for yearround workers. On balance, greater manpower requirements did not reduce unemployment among women but rather drew significant numbers of them into the labor force.

Most of the improvement in unemployment oc

curred among those who had been jobless for a total of 15 weeks or more; this number fell to about 2.7 million, about 700,000 fewer than in 1965. Unemployment did not decline in all duration groups, however. The number of persons out of work for fewer than 5 weeks rose by approximately 250,000 to 3.3 million.

All of the decline in unemployment was among whites. The proportion of whites with unemployment in 1966 was 12 percent compared with 14 percent in 1965. Among Negroes, however, the percent with unemployment-22 percent-remained the same.

Labor Force Attachment

The majority of the 86 million Americans with work experience in 1966 held a strong attachment to the labor force. Fifty million of them were employed at year-round full-time jobs and 5.4 million worked a full year at part-time jobs; another 5.2 million persons were in the labor force all year but were unemployed part of the year. The traditionally stronger attachment of men than women to the labor force was clear in the figures (table 1). Four out of five men were fullyear labor force participants, compared with about half the women. Year-round labor force attachment was slightly less, overall, for Negro men than for white. Among women, the same proportion of white and Negroes were in the labor force year round.2

*Of the Division of Labor Force Studies, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

1 Data pertain to the 1966 work experience of persons in the civilian noninstitutional population 16 years and over, and are based on information from supplementary questions to the February 1967 monthly survey of the labor force, conducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of the Census through its current population survey.

This is the eighth in a series of reports on this subject. The most recent was published in the Monthly Labor Review, December 1966, pp. 1369-1377, and is reprinted with additional tabular data and explanatory notes as Special Labor Force Report No. 76, which also includes a complete listing of earlier reports and their coverage.

2 The tables in this report refer to the "nonwhite" population, of whom 92 percent are Negroes. The data thus overwhelmingly pertain to Negroes and will be used in this article to describe the experience of Negroes.