For Yours JOB
1986Paul Geshos 1986-03Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 6 →
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THON an update on negotiations.
Jim Smith, assistant to USWA International President Lynn Williams, urged local officers to be "responsible" and try to explain LTV's serious financial problems to the membership. But local officers were not so easily convinced that their interests coincided with those of the company. Questions pointed to LTV's mismanagement and the need for a government policy to rebuild decaying roads and bridges. Smith tried to duck all such questions by attacking the Reagan administration.
During the Cleveland officers' meeting, as the company's concessions demands were listed, shouts of "Shut 'em down" came from parts of the hall.
A losing philosophy • A Jan. 29 meeting between LTV and the USWA shows the losing philosophy behind these negotiations. The meeting concluded: "LTV Steel and the United Steelworkers of America recognize that it is important to the viability of the Company and the well-being of its employees that they promptly address the need to assure the public that continuity of the Company's steel operations is their mutual goal for 1986 and beyond."