Leonard Woodcock
Leonard Woodcock
Leonard Freel Woodcockwas President of the United Auto Workersand the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 February 1911
CityProvidence, RI
CountryUnited States of America
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Wholesale prices, on the other hand, began a slow rise in the early months of 1965, which were sharply accelerated in the summer and fall of 1965.
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Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.
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We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.
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At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years.
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And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.
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When the settlement was made to pay the same wage rates in 1967, it provided for base rate parity, but not cost of living parity.