Impact of Automation on Employment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Unemployment and the Impact of Automation of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session. General Investigation Into Types and Causes of Unemployment ... |
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Page 117 - ... conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment for those able. willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.
Page 20 - ... to contribute to: — the payment of indemnities to tide the workers over until they can obtain new employment; — the granting of allowances to the workers for reinstallation expenses; — the financing of technical retraining for workers who are led to change their employment.
Page 292 - Bartenders International Union International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers International Brotherhood of Boilermakers & Blacksmiths International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers International Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers International Longshoremen's Association International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots of America National Marine Engineers...
Page 20 - Committee; (b) may facilitate, in accordance with the methods provided for in Article 54, the financing of such programmes as it may approve for the creation, either in the industries subject to its jurisdiction or, with the agreement of the Council, in any other industry, of new and economically sound...
Page 683 - ... (2) It is the intent of this document that the contract, working and dispatching rules shall not be construed so as to require the hiring of unnecessary men. The question of whether or not men are necessary shall be based on a determination of the number of men required to perform an operation in accordance with the provisions of [paragraph 1 quoted above].
Page 22 - ... industries themselves and used directly by them; however, the resources resulting from such recovered scrap shall be taken into consideration in the establishment of the bases of distribution for commercial scrap. (c) For the application of the provisions of Article 59 to commercial recovered scrap-iron, the High Authority, in cooperation with the governments of the member States, will gather the necessary information on availabilities and requirements, including exports to third countries. On...
Page 259 - SUBCOMMITTEE ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE IMPACT OF AUTOMATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington, DC The subcommittee met at 10 :15 am, pursuant to recess, in the caucus room, Old House Office Building, Hon.
Page 21 - Other provisions in the agreement (a) A discharged worker called for interview by a prospective new employer is to be entitled to a refund of his travel expenses. (b) For twelve months following discharge or transfer to another pit or branch of the enterprise, a worker will be refunded any additional travel expenses incurred as a result of his having to travel a greater distance to reach his work. (c) Where the distance between a worker's new place of employment and his home is so great that he cannot...
Page 691 - The same can be said for the railroads' campaign against featherbedding. American industry's enormous investment in new and more advanced plant and equipment since World War II is now beginning to bear fruit, and we are witnessing only the beginning of the painful adjustment of industrial relations to a radically changing environment at the place of work. Probably one of the most interesting and novel approaches to the many complex problems arising out of technical change is that evolving in the...
Page 693 - ... The employers' association, pushed by those leaders in the industry who were already introducing new methods, was anxious to get a firm agreement which •would unfreeze the working rules on these new operations. Postponement of the issue would have meant another year of expensive guerrilla fighting. The union leaders, however, were committed to getting a share of the machine in 1959, and they weren't ready to sell a liberalization of work rules for a few cents more in wages. After several months...