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February 5, 1960
Summit County Labor News
Akron, Summit County, Ohio
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Experts at a Harvard seminar sponsored by AFL-CIO discuss need for new union approaches to organize engineers and technical workers, emphasizing flexibility for status and logical appeals amid declining production workers.
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Unions can organize successfully among engineers and other professional and technical workers. but they will have to change their traditional approach, three experts agreed in Cambridge, Mass.
This view was expressed at a four-day Harvard University seminar sponsored by the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Dept. on Collective Bargaining Problems of Professional and Technical Workers."
Professors Fred Harbison of Princeton University, S. M. Miller of Brooklyn College and John Dunlop of Harvard, said the union appeal to these workers must be flexible enough to allow for the importance of individual status and advancement. They also agreed union programs should emphasize factual and logical rather than emotional reasons for organization.
The seminar, said IUD, reflected the mounting concern of industrial unions with the increasing proportion of professional and technical workers in the labor force and the accompanying decline of production and maintenance workers.
Data presented at the seminar showed that, where there was one engineer for every 80 industrial workers at the turn of the century, today the proportion is one engineer for every 60 industrial workers. Other figures showed that, from 1948 to June 1959, production workers in all manufacturing declined by 9.3 per cent.
A special IUD analysis of the trend revealed the greatest declines since 1948 occurred in "aircraft and parts," 12.4 per cent; "petroleum refiners," 10.5 per cent and "chemical and allied products," 12.1 per cent.
Unions can organize successfully among engineers and other professional and technical workers. but they will have to change their traditional approach, three experts agreed in Cambridge, Mass.
This view was expressed at a four-day Harvard University seminar sponsored by the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Dept. on Collective Bargaining Problems of Professional and Technical Workers."
Professors Fred Harbison of Princeton University, S. M. Miller of Brooklyn College and John Dunlop of Harvard, said the union appeal to these workers must be flexible enough to allow for the importance of individual status and advancement. They also agreed union programs should emphasize factual and logical rather than emotional reasons for organization.
The seminar, said IUD, reflected the mounting concern of industrial unions with the increasing proportion of professional and technical workers in the labor force and the accompanying decline of production and maintenance workers.
Data presented at the seminar showed that, where there was one engineer for every 80 industrial workers at the turn of the century, today the proportion is one engineer for every 60 industrial workers. Other figures showed that, from 1948 to June 1959, production workers in all manufacturing declined by 9.3 per cent.
A special IUD analysis of the trend revealed the greatest declines since 1948 occurred in "aircraft and parts," 12.4 per cent; "petroleum refiners," 10.5 per cent and "chemical and allied products," 12.1 per cent.
What sub-type of article is it?
Seminar Report
Labor Analysis
What keywords are associated?
Union Organization
Technical Workers
Harvard Seminar
Afl Cio
Workforce Decline
Engineers
Collective Bargaining
What entities or persons were involved?
Fred Harbison
S. M. Miller
John Dunlop
Where did it happen?
Cambridge, Mass.
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Key Persons
Fred Harbison
S. M. Miller
John Dunlop
Location
Cambridge, Mass.
Story Details
Three professors at a Harvard seminar agree unions need flexible, logical approaches to organize professional and technical workers, amid data showing rising engineer proportions and declining production workers from 1948 to June 1959.