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first wage negotiations in the dairy industry, there was a
differential of nineteen per cent between the top job classification
and the lowest job classification. Because of the
’’across the board" increases which have been prevalent
since 194-6, this percentage has now decreased to about a
seven per cent differential. 2 In the contract negotiations
just completed, the industry, through the Association and
the Union, negotiated wage increases under the pre-war
percentage method to try and off set this decrease in wage
differentials. As a result of returning to this method,
all parties concerned felt that after several years, the
differential, which was prevalent prior to 194-6, will once
again be in effect.
Ihe first contracts negotiated from 1937 to 194-5 were
negotiated individually in the various locations where
dairy operations were located. However, due to an incident
in 194-5» a small union membership of the Teamsters Dairy
Workers Union, negotiated a contract with the producers in
San Diego, California in which they received ten cents an
hour more in wages than the larger union organization in
Los Angeles, California. It so happened that these producers
In San Diego were, in the most part, subsidiaries of the
| ?Statement by J. D. Rice, Manager, Dairy Industry Industrial Relations Association.
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| Title | An inquiry into the industrial relations program of the Dairy Industry Industrial Relations Association. - Page 40 |
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| Full text | first wage negotiations in the dairy industry, there was a differential of nineteen per cent between the top job classification and the lowest job classification. Because of the ’’across the board" increases which have been prevalent since 194-6, this percentage has now decreased to about a seven per cent differential. 2 In the contract negotiations just completed, the industry, through the Association and the Union, negotiated wage increases under the pre-war percentage method to try and off set this decrease in wage differentials. As a result of returning to this method, all parties concerned felt that after several years, the differential, which was prevalent prior to 194-6, will once again be in effect. Ihe first contracts negotiated from 1937 to 194-5 were negotiated individually in the various locations where dairy operations were located. However, due to an incident in 194-5» a small union membership of the Teamsters Dairy Workers Union, negotiated a contract with the producers in San Diego, California in which they received ten cents an hour more in wages than the larger union organization in Los Angeles, California. It so happened that these producers In San Diego were, in the most part, subsidiaries of the | ?Statement by J. D. Rice, Manager, Dairy Industry Industrial Relations Association. |
