UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS OFFICIAL BUSINESS POSTAGE AND FEES PAID U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Monthly FEBRUARY 1966 VOL. 89 NO. Prices of 1966 Automobile Models The Sixth AFL-CIO Convention Papers From the IRRA Annual Meeting H. M. DOUTY, Associate Commissioner for Program Planning and Publications PAUL R. KERSCHBAUM, Associate Commissioner for Administrative Management JACK ALTERMAN, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Economic Growth GERTRUDE BANCROFT, Special Assistant to the Commissioner ARNOLD E. CHASE, Assistant Commissioner for Prices and Living Conditions EDWARD DIAMOND, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Administrative Management JOSEPH P. GOLDBERG, Special Assistant to the Commissioner HAROLD GOLDSTEIN, Assistant Commissioner for Manpower and Employment Statistics LEON GREENBERG, Assistant Commissioner for Productivity and Technological Developments LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Chief, Division of Publications HYMAN L. LEWIS, Economic Consultant to the Commissioner LEONARD R. LINSENMAYER, Assistant Commissioner for Wages and Industrial Relations ABE ROTHMAN, Special Assistant to the Commissioner WILLIAM C. SHELTON, Chief, Division of Foreign Labor Conditions KENNETH G. VAN AUKEN, Special Assistant to the Commissioner The Monthly Labor Review is for sale by the regional offices listed above and by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, The distribution of subscription copies is handled by the Superintendent of Documents. Communications on editorial matters Use of funds for printing this publication approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget (October 31, 1962). DEPOSITED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Monthly Labor Review UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR • BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS LAWRENCE R. KLEIN, Editor-in-Chief CONTENTS 126 127 128 130 132 138 144 147 155 Special Articles Papers From the IRRA Annual Meeting Shifting Concepts of Worker Security Seniority as Security: A Rationale Pension Fund Investment: Both Sides of the Coin Program Proposals for Manpower Policy Geographic Study of Employment and Earnings From 1939 to 1964 Manpower Projections: Some Conceptual Problems and Research Needs Special Labor Force Reports: Multiple Jobholders in May 1965 Work Experience of the Population Summaries of Studies and Reports Provisions for Paid Sick Leave in Metropolitan Areas 164 170 175 Attitudes Toward Unionism of Active and Passive Members This Issue in Brief... only 1 out of 4 persons who worked less than the IT IS DIFFICULT these days to say where management's prerogatives end and collective bargaining begins unless a union contract contains a "management rights" clause specifying the functions reserved for the employer, and sometimes "briefly [referring] to the existence of management rights." In a study of major collective bargaining agreements, Management Rights Provisions in Major Agreements (p. 170), Richard F. Groner and Leon E. Lunden observe that some employers refuse to have their rights circumscribed by a contractual clause, but almost half of the agreements studied did contain such provisions. U.S. INDUSTRIES continue to expand toward the West and the South, and growth in these parts of the country has been mainly responsible for the virtual doubling of nonagricultural employment in the past quarter century. The traditionally industrial East lagged behind in the process, says Carol Utter in Geographic Study of Employment and Earnings From 1939 to 1964 (p. 132), but today, 1 out of 4 jobs are still located in the New England and Middle Atlantic regions, and New York and Pennsylvania still have the largest number of industrial workers. A STUDY of multiple jobholding, presented by Forrest A. Bogan and Thomas E. Swanstrom in Multiple Jobholders in May 1965 (p. 147), indicates that the practice is not on the increase even though it is not declining. A moonlighter, say the authors, is sometimes condemned on moral grounds, but he is likely to be "not a scamp but a scapegoat, not greedy but himself in need of additional income." The most typical of them are family men between 25 and 44 years of age, working part time in their second jobs. THE WORKTIME lost to the economy by the 14 million people who were unemployed for a week or more at least once during 1964 was equivalent to the total full-time man-weeks used in three leading manufacturing industries-motor vehicles, electrical machinery, and primary metals. However, full year . . . was in the labor force all of 1964," says Samuel Saben in Work Experience of the Population (p. 155). This included a surprisingly large proportion of adult men-10 percent of all men in their prime working ages of 25 to 64 years who were in the labor force in 1964 for less than the full year. |