COLOSSAL CLAIMS BY U.S. UNIONS
(Press Assn-
PORTA'L PAY SUITS 6,000,000,000 dollars possible tqtal
-Rec. 9.30 p.m.)
NEW YQRK, Dec., 21. Suits are also being prepared against Chrysler, General Mofors and other companies for portal to portal pay. The elaims already filed, maiiilv by steel and automobile workers, exceed 455,000,000 dollars and some industry leaders predict a final total of 5,000,000,000 dollars 01* six thousand million dollars. On behalf of 2000 workers of the Ford Motor Company's Chicago plant, United Auto Workers filed a suit in the Federal Court against the company for 4,000,000 dollars portal to portal pay, claimed to be due since 1'938, and 4,0C'0v000 dollars damages. This is the latest in a wave of similar suits hy the union ha-sed on the United States Snpreme Court decision in June that the time spent hy an employee in going to and from the plant gates to his place of work, also the time in oollecting tools and changing work clothes, are part of the normal work day. Mr. Riehard Lennard, vice-presi-dent of the United Auto Workers'" Union, announcedi that suits within a few days would be filed claimingportal to portal pay totalling 1;000,OOOyOO'O dollars from Detroit employers alone. The claiir.s would include 270,000,000 dollars froiu the Ford Motcr Company on behalf of 60,000 workers at the River Rouge plant, and 60,000,000 dollars from the Brigg ' Manufacturing Company, which makes motcr car parts. The G.O.W. Chemical Company, of Miehigaii, has announeed that it has agreed to pay its employees 4,5G0,OV)0 dollars portal pay restrospeetive to 1940. Unions so far have filed 47 suits claiming retrospeetive portal pay and damages from companies in 11 States. The main elaims are made against the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, and the National Tube Company. together for 120, 1 000, 000 dollars, . „the Republie Steel Corporation, 56,000,000 dollars, and l'O other companies for 10 million to 40 million each.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5285, 23 December 1946, Page 5
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