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Z. ^ ' O , oc 2 3 Wage Chronology: International Paper Co., Multiple Mill Group, and the Paperworkers and the Electrical Workers (IBEW), 1937-79 U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics 1979 Wage Chronology: International Paper Co., Multiple Mill Group, and the Paperworkers and the Electrical Workers (IBEW) 1937-79 U.S. Department of Labor Ray Marshall, Secretary Bureau of Labor Statistics Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner September 1979 Bulletin 2023 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D .C . 20402 Stock No. 029-001-02393-6 Preface This wage chronology prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is one of a series that traces changes in wage rates and related benefits negotiated by in dividual employers or combinations of employers with a union or group of unions. Benefits unilaterally in troduced by an employer generally are included. The information is obtained largely from collective bargain-' ing agreements and related documents voluntarily filed with the Bureau. Descriptions of the course of collec tive bargaining are derived from the news media and confirmed and supplemented by the parties to the agreement. Wage chronologies deal only with selected features of collective bargaining or wage determina tion. They are intended primarily as a tool for research, analysis, and wage administration. References to job security, grievance procedures, methods of piece-rate adjustment, and similar matters are omitted. This wage chronology summarizes changes in wage rates and related benefits negotiated by the Interna tional Paper Co., Multiple Mill Group, with the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) and the In ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) from June 1937 to May 1979. This bulletin replaces Wage Chronology: International Paper Co., Southern Kraft Division, December 1937-May 1973, BLS Bulletin 1788, and incorporates the supplement cover ing the June 1973-May 1977 period. Materials pre viously published have been supplemented in this bulletin by data on contract changes negotiated for the 1977-79 period. If still in print, copies of Bulletin 1788, are for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, or by the regional offices of the Bureau of Labor Statistics listed on the inside back cover. All chronology publications may be available for reference in leading public, college, and university libraries and in the Bureau’s regional offices. The Bureau has introduced new job titles to elimi nate those that denote sex stereotypes. For purposes of this chronology, however, old titles have been retained where they refer specifically to contractual definitions. Titles used in the generic sense and not to describe a contract term have been changed to eliminate the sex stereotype. Material in this publication is in the public domain and may be reproduced without permission of the Federal Government. Please credit the Bureau of Labor Statistics and cite Wage Chronology: Interna tional Paper Company, Multiple Mill Group, and the Paperworkers (UPIU) and the Electrical Workers (IBEW) 1937-79, BLS Bulletin 2023. The analysis for the 1973-79 period was prepared in the Division of Trends in Employee Compensation by Milfred W. Ellis. iii Contents Page Introduction......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Summary of contract negotiations: December 1937-May 1965 .......................................................................................................................... June 1965-May1967 ..................................................................................................................................... June 1967-May1970 ..................................................................................................................................... June 1970-May1973 ..................................................................................................................................... June 1973-May1977 ..................................................................................................................................... June 1977-May1979 ..................................................................................................................................... 4 4 5 6 6 7 Tables: 1. General wage changes........................................................................................................................... 2a. Beginners’ hourly wage rates,1937-65 .................................................................................................. 2b. Beginners’ hourly wage rates,1966-78 .................................................................................................. 3. Supplementary compensationpractices.................................................................................................. Shift premium pay.................................................................................................................................. Premium pay for Sunday work............................................................................................................. Overtime p a y .......................................................................................................................................... Holiday p a y ............................................................................................................................................ Paid vacations........................................................................................................................................ Call-in p a y .............................................................................................................................................. Reporting pay.......................................................................................................................................... Paid rest periods.................................................................................................................................... Paid sick leave........................................................................................................................................ Jury duty p a y .......................................................................................................................................... Severance p a y ........................................................................................................................................ Funeral leave.......................................................................................................................................... Mealtime p a y .......................................................................................................................................... Wire and clothing time pay.................................................................................................................. Insurance p la n s...................................................................................................................................... Retirement plan...................................................................................................................................... 9 12 12 13 13 13 13 14 15 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 18 18 19 22 Wage chronologies available............................................................................................................................. 29 v Introduction The International Paper Co. and its subsidiaries make up the world’s largest papermaking organization. In addition to its papermaking operations in the United States and Canada, International Paper owns or leases over 23 million acres of woodlands. The Multiple Mill Group (the Southern Kraft Division until 1976) is the firm’s largest.1 International Paper Co. was first incorporated in New York in 1898. It was formed through a merger of 18 papermaking companies located in northern New York, V erm ont, New H am pshire, M aine, and Massachusetts. In 1928, the International Paper and Power Co., which subsequently divested itself of its utility properties, acquired the company. The present organization was incorporated in New York on June 23, 1941 and on September 29, 1941 acquired the assets of the International Paper and Power Co., in cluding over 99 percent of the stock of the latter’s subridiary, the old International Paper Co. Operations in the South and in kraft paper were started when the Bastrop Mill in Louisiana was purchased in 1925. Subsequently, mills in the South were built or bought in Camden, Ark. (1926), Bastrop, La. (Louisiana Mill-1927), Moss Point, Miss. (1928), Mobile, Ala. (1929), Panama City Fla. (1931), Georgetown, S.C. (1937), Springhill, La. (1938), Natchez, Miss. (1951), and Pine Bluff, Ark. (1958).2 As the number of mills in the Southern Kraft Divi sion increased to 10, production expanded from unbleached linerboard into practically every grade of paper and board. Today, in addition to bleached and unbleached kraft paper and board, products include newsprint, various groundwood printing grades, dis solving pulps, chemfibre, shipping containers, and gro cery and specialty bags. Hourly rated employees of the International Paper Co., Multiple Mill Group papermills are represented by four international unions. Two—the United Papermakers International Union (UPIU) and the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)— represent the vast majority of workers (about 93 per cent). They negotiate jointly with the company and are the two unions summarized in this wage chronology. Other hourly employees are represented by the Inter national Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (I AM) and the United Association of Journey men and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada (PPF).3 The current UPIU resulted from the merger of the former United Papermakers and Paperworkers (UPP) and the former International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers (PSPMW) on August 9, 1972. Antecedents of the UPP can be traced to 1884, when a group of Holyoke, Mass., papermachine ten ders organized a “social club.” This and other groups that followed were located in the northeastern states, then the center of the paper industry. A charter cover ing paper-machine tenders and beater engineers, the aristocrats of the trade, was issued by the American Federation of Labor in 1893 in the name of the United B rotherhood of P aperm akers. Other paperm ill workers’ dissatisfaction with the lack of representation in matters that directly affected their livelihood caused the AFL to issue a new charter in 1897. This charter expanded the organization’s jurisdiction to all branches of the paper-making industry. A dual movement, founded by skilled papermachine tenders who were not in accord with the ex pansion in membership, amalgamated with the United Brotherhood in 1902 to form the International Brother hood of Paper Makers. One year later, a group of Laborers Protective Unions, affiliated directly with the Federation and representing workers employed outside the machine rooms, were transferred without their con sent to the International Brotherhood. This merger did not adequately represent unskilled and semiskilled workers, and, in 1906, these workers organized the PSPMW outside of the Federation. Intense rivalry hurt both unions, and in 1909 they divided the jurisdiction of the paper industry. Newsprint, bag, and hanging mill workers were ceded to the Pulp Workers, as were all workers not connected with any other international union. To eliminate possi ble conflicts, a joint conference board was established to discuss mutual problems at regular intervals. The new jurisdictions were confirmed when the Pulp 1 In 1976, International Paper Co. was reorganized into various Business Groups. The former Southern Kraft Division became the Multiple Mill Group. 2Other International Paper Co. primary mills are not covered by this chronology. 3 Other groups of employees and operations not included in this chronology are also represented by international unions. The Office and Professional Employees International Union, for example, is the collective bargaining agent for specified groups of salaried office and clerical employees. 1 pleted in 1967 when the first of the 3-year agreements was negotiated. From 1937 to 1965, all general wage changes that were negotiated were increases except one—a 5-percent wage decrease was instituted in Sep tember 1938 but rescinded in February 1939. General wage increases went into effect in each of the years of the contractual relationship except two— 1943 and 1949. Southern Kraft employees’ wage rates were in creased twice a year in 2 years, during World War II and the Korean emergency. In 1938, black laborers received 4 cents an hour below the base rate for whites. On application of the company and the union, the National War Labor Board in 1943 removed the differential, which had in creased to 4'/2 cents an hour. Women’s minimum rates were 8 cents an hour below those paid men when the Board was considering the parties’ request. This differential was maintained until 1948, however, when it was reduced to 6 cents an hour. No further decreases were negotiated until 1962 when another 2-cent reduc tion was made. The following year the differential was reduced to 2 cents and in 1964 was eliminated. Basic hourly rates of pay in kraft pulp and papermills are among the highest in the South. The industry started in the South in 1910 and developed rapidly during the 1920’s. Papermaking requires a relatively large proportion of skilled labor to perform intricate operations with expensive machinery. Because few workers in the region were experienced, southern employers imported and paid the rates necessary to at tract skilled workers from the North. As a result, “.. .wage rates for skilled workers in 1939 were con siderably higher in some of the Southern States than in Maine and New Hampshire. Common labor, on the other hand, was paid a uniformly lower rate in the South.”6 By 1946, however, the director of the southern region of the Paper Makers was able to report that the regular rate in Southern Kraft Division plants was .. the same as the base (rate) in the Book and Bond Divi sion of the International Paper Company.”7 Book and Bond Division plants of the company were all located in northern states. Wages paid in the South are greater than those paid in the Northeast, although still below those in the Pacific Northwest.8 Wage rates in the Northwest, which also is a major production center for pulp and paper products, traditionally have been the highest in the in- Workers were admitted to the Federation. In March 1957, the Paper Makers adopted the name United Papermakers and Paperworkers after amalgamating with a former affiliate of the CIO—the United Paperworkers of America.4 The accord of 1909 established a basis for a joint and harmonious association between the UPP and the PSPMW that lasted until their recent merger, and resulted in relatively uniform policies among the mills within each of the major producing regions. Bargaining goals in the South, as in other regions, were influenced strongly by the two internationals through joint wage conferences. Generally, a union vice president and sometimes international representatives supervised negotiations with key companies. The terms agreed to then became the pattern for negotiations in other plants in the region, subject to some changes because of differing conditions among firms. In the South, expres sion of local opinion, provided through the Southern Association of Pulp and Paper Industry Unions, was in formal but effective. The association, organized in 1943, continues to meet several times a year and before negotiations to discuss problems in the South. At the Southern Kraft Division, the practice has been for a single contract to be negotiated and signed with the two paper unions (now the combined UPIU) and the IBEW.5 It frequently was the first to be negoti ated in the South and provided the pattern for a major segment of the southern paper and pulp industry. The initial collective bargaining agreement in the Southern Kraft Division was negotiated with the UPP, PSPMW, and IBEW at the Mobile plant in 1937. Addi tional contracts were reached in 1938 for mills located in Panama City, Georgetown, Bastrop (2 mills), and Camden, and the first multiplant contract covering all eight mills then in the Southern Kraft Division was negotiated with the 3 unions in 1939. The Machinists negotiated their initial contract in 1938 for employees of the Panama City mill, and the Plumbers’ first agree ment, at the Springhill mill, was reached 3 years later. From 1941 through 1949, a master agreement negotiated by the five unions for all eight mills covered all employees. The Machinists and Plumbers returned to separate contracts for their members in 1950; this practice continues at the present time. The IBEW and the former UPP and PSPMW still negotiate jointly. One-year contracts were traditional until 1956, when the parties negotiated a 2-year agreement. Of the next six negotiations, half produced 2-year agreements and the trend toward multi-year contracts was com- 6Rupert W. Maclaurin, “Wages and Profits in the Paper Indus try, 1929-39,” The Quarterly Journal o f Economics, February 1944, Vol. LVIII, No. 2, p. 217. 7 Letter dated May 23, 1946, from Regional Director, Southern Regional Offices, International Brotherhood of Papermakers to the Research and Educational Director, International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. 8 See Industry Wage Survey: Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills, Summer-Fall 1977, Bulletin 2008 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1979). 4 The United Paperworkers received its charter from CIO on Jan. 1, 1944; the union did not represent workers in the Southern Kraft Division of the International Paper Co. 5Separate contracts (not included in this chronology) were negotiated by the PSPMW for each of the five regions in which the company had woodland operations. The first agreement for these employees was signed in Georgetown, S.C. in 1947. 2 dustry. However, the percentage differential between rates in the Northwest and those in the Southern Kraft Division has been narrowed significantly over the last 30 years due to a greater rate of increase in pay in southern mills.9 The predominant method of pay has always been a flat rate, but a small percentage of the workers—those who operate paper machines—were paid according to an incentive formula during the period June 1958 through May 1973; in the 1973 bargaining, the com pany and the union agreed to discontinue the paper machine incentive formula. Provisions of the contracts dealing with the day-to-day administration of the paper machine formula are not included in the tables of this chronology. Changes in related practices that are reported, however, applied to those employees during this period as well as those paid time rates. “Harold M. Levinson, Determining Forces in Collective Wage Bargaining (New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1966), pp. 130-131. 3 Summary of Contract Negotiations ble sections, and was supplemented by a 6-page safety manual and a 52-page schedule of occupational rates. December 1937-May 1965 The first collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the company in the South,10 at the Mobile plant, was initiated jointly by the UPP, PSPMW, and IBEW in 1937, and signed in January 1938, during the period of rapid union expansion encouraged by enactment of favorable Federal legislation.11 The contract was comparatively free of detail. It was a two-page typewritten document with six sections, an addendum of 15 mill rules and 25 safety rules, and a three-page wage schedule. Its economic provisions, other than those directly related to rates of pay, were limited to premium pay for overtime, shift differentials, work on recognized holidays, and pay for workers called to work outside their regular schedule. At the time of the first agreement, the company also improved the jointly financed insurance benefits which had been available to its workers companywide since 1923, two years before it started operations in the South. (Provi sions reported in table 3 as being in effect in 1937 do not necessarily indicate changes from prior conditions of employment.) Numerous improvements and additions to work practice provisions and benefits were negotiated over the next 27 years. By 1965, the contract had grown to 56 printed pages, including 16 articles and innumera June 1965-May 1967 The course of negotiations scheduled to open in May 1965 appeared to have been forecast by the tenor of statements presented by union officials at the 22d An nual Convention of the Southern Association of Pulp and Paper Industry Unions. Delegates to the April con vention received an inclusive bargaining proposal “Design for Progress ’65,” that explained the goals of the PSPMW. Similar goals were adopted by the UPP. As in the past, the goals covered many issues. Pro posals to raise earnings included increases in wage rates and premium pay for overtime as well as higher shift differentials. Recommendations for additional paid holidays, longer regular vacations with pay, and extended vacations would have maintained earnings levels while providing more leisure. Although the AFLCIO position on a shorter workweek was supported to provide additional jobs, the paper unions’ proposals made no reference to the maintenance of earnings. During periods of unemployment resulting from mergers and technological changes, supplemental unemployment benefits and severance pay plans were advocated. Finally, there were proposals to improve pension and health and welfare plans. Since most of the union contracts provided for paid jury duty and funeral leave, only brief reference was made to them. Almost as many goals dealt with nonmonetary issues as with monetary demands. The bargaining objectives developed by the Associa tion and the demands of the union locals were largely a reflection of the International Unions’ program. Negotiations opened on May 6 and continued beyond May 31, the scheduled expiration date of the contract, without either party serving the required 10-day notice of intent to terminate. By June 3, the union negotiators had decided that the areas of disagreement warranted a 10-day strike notice. On June 11, 1965, employees left their jobs for the first time since the initial agree ment was signed in January 1938.12 Reflecting the un derstanding that had developed during the long rela tionship, negotiations continued and shutdown opera tions proceeded in an orderly fashion. 10 The UPP and PSPMW had contracts with the company’s north ern mills during and before World War I. In 1921, the unions struck in the northern mills against a reduction in pay. The strike against the company lasted 5 years. From the start of the strike until 1937 the company operated an open shop. In 1935, however, John P. Burke, President of the PSPMW, reported at the union’s annual con vention that “the company was not discriminating against the union a n d ... I have also had several meetings with the head officials o f the International Paper Company during the past 2 years.” 11 Robert M. Macdonald stated in Unionism and the Wage Struc ture in the United States Pulp and Paper Industry, Institute of In dustrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles, 1956, that the ebb in union membership in the late 1920’s and early 30’s was “brought to an abrupt halt with the enactment of the National In dustrial Recovery Act and the National Labor Relations Act. As a result of this legislation new locals sprang up rapidly not only in the older papermaking regions of the Northeast and Lake States but also in the newer regions of the Pacific Coast and South.” James A. Gross, in “The Making and Shaping of Unionism in the Pulp Industry,” Labor History, Spring 1964, p. 198, agreed with Macdonald and in addition suggested that: “Many formerly hostile employers, surveying the scene, decided that it would be prudent to settle with the more mature conservatism of the Pulp and Sulphite Workers and the Paper Makers before the new and more ‘radical’ labor unions made inroads among their employees. . .” 12Short wildcat strikes had occurred at two plants before the division-wide walkout. 4 At this point, the company had offered a 32.5-centsan-hour package in a 2-year agreement. Under the offer, wage rates would have been increased 10 cents an hour the first year and 3.5 percent (averaging ap proximately 9.6 cents an hour) the second year. Shift differentials would have been increased. An additional holiday was offered, and vacation benefits would have been increased to 5 weeks after 25 years’ service. Ex tensive revisions of the pension plan were proposed. Eligibility requirements for normal retirement would have been reduced to age 63 with 30 years’ service, and annuities would have been increased by 15 percent for past service credits and by 16.66 percent for all service starting in 1965. Fifteen years’ service would have been required for disability benefits. The plan was to be ex panded by the addition of benefits for survivors of ac tive employees who died at or after age 63 with 30 years of service or more. The proposal would also have required the company, over a 4-year period, to assume the employee’s pension contribution on the first $3,000 earned during a year. Although the company and union were in agreement on many issues, there were wide areas of difference on a number of major items—the most important was reported to be eligibility for early retirement with unreduced pension benefits. Under the unions’ pro posals, any employee would be eligible for a “full nor mal annuity,” based on years of service, at age 62. There was also a wide gap between the two general wage increase proposals; the union wanted a 12-centan-hour raise the first year, and 4.5 percent (about 12.5 cents) the second year. Also, the union requested a 4week paid vacation after 15 years of service, 5 weeks after 20 years, and 6 weeks after 30 years. The unions struck at 2 p.m. on June 11, 1965. Negotiations were recessed on June 14, and were not resumed for 10 days. A week after talks resumed, the company had sufficiently narrowed the difference in the parties’ position to warrant, in the opinion of the union negotiators, a vote by members of the locals. The agreement was ratified by the locals on July 2 and the strike ended on the same day. All 10 Southern Kraft Division plants observed the July 4, no-work holiday and resumed operations after that date. In the first year of the 2-year contract wage rates were increased 10.5 cents an hour, paid vacations were increased to 4 weeks for employees with 15 years of service or more, and extensive improvements were made in the pension plan. Normal benefits for employees retiring after the effective date of the con tract were to be raised by increasing the dollar amount due for past service and the percentage used to com pute benefits earned after January 1, 1965. The ac tuarial reduction was eliminated for employees who retired at age 62 with at least 20 years’ service, and years of service required for a disability benefit were reduced. A benefit was added for surviving spouses of employees who died before retirement. The treatment accorded employees who had participated in the plan and rejoined was liberalized and employees’ contribu tions on the first $3,000 *of annual earnings were reduced. The contract provided for a 3.5 percent general wage increase in 1966, as well as further improvements in vacation benefits. On or after June 1, 1966, employees with 25 but less than 30 years’ service were to receive 5 weeks’ paid vacation; those who completed 30 years or more, 6 weeks’. Another decrease in employee pension plan contributions went into effect on June 1, 1966. Although the contract could be renegotiated or terminated after May 31, 1967, employees’ contributions on the first $3,000 of earnings were again to be reduced on June 1, 1967, and com pletely eliminated the following year. June 1967-May 1970 v A 3-year contract was signed on June 28, 1967, by the International Paper Co., Southern Kraft Division, and the Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers; the United Papermakers and Paperworkers; and the Inter national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Approx imately 11,500 workers at 10 plants in six Southern States were covered by the agreement, which had been ratified by union members in mid-June. Negotiations for a new contract to replace the one expiring May 31, 1967, began May 1, 1967. Union de mands included: A 1-year contract; a 40-cent-an-hour general wage increase; three additional paid “no work” holidays; 10 weeks of paid vacation every fifth year, in addition to the existing vacation provisions; improved overtime, call-in, and severance pay; improved shift differentials and insurance provisions, including illness and accident benefits, and company assumption of the cost of the dependent insurance program and also of life insurance for retirees regardless of age or cause of retirement; a cost-of-living escalator clause; and a $ 1,000 bonus, instead of a $ 1,000 life insurance policy, to employees after 25 years of service with the com pany. The agreement provided for general wage increases of 16 cents an hour, retroactive to June 1, 1967, 5 per cent (calculated to the nearest '/•> cent) and averaging 15.6 cents an hour effective June 1, 1968; and 17 cents an hour on June 1, 1969. Additional adjustments for approximately 5,700 workers, ranging from xk to 18 cents an hour, also were effective June 1, 1967. Pre mium pay for second and third shifts was increased 1 cent an hour, effective June 1, 1967, and the third-shift premium was increased 2 cents more the following June. July 3 was designated as an eighth paid holiday (but plant closing was to be optional); 4 hours’ pay at time 5 and one-half, in addition to regular holiday pay, was guaranteed for work on scheduled no-work holidays. Eligibility requirements for 3 weeks of paid vacation were reduced. The agreement also increased severance pay, to 2 from 1 percent of total earnings during the last period of unbroken employment. Improvements in the insurance plan included an increase in company con tributions toward dependent hospital insurance, effec tive June 1, 1969. The parties agreed to the following changes in the 4-year pension agreement which was scheduled to expire June 1, 1969: To extend the ex piration date to June 1, 1970, the expiration of the labor agreement; that any pension changes negotiated in 1970 were to apply to employees retiring during the third contract year (June 1, 1969, through May 31, 1970); that the company would assume the full cost of group life insurance for early retirees, effective June 1, 1967; and that elimination of the employee’s contribu tion to the pension plan on the first $3,000 annual earn ings would be advanced to June 1, 1967, from June 1, 1968, as originally negotiated in 1965. • The agreement was to remain in effect through May 31, 1970, with provision for a 1969 reopening on wage rates of new or revised jobs. Under this provision, negotiations in May and June of 1969 resulted in wage adjustments of from 2 to 38 cents an hour on new or changed jobs. These adjustments, effective June 1, 1969, affected approximately 500 employees and were in addition to the 17-cent-an-hour general wage in crease, effective the same day, negotiated in 1967. to $3,085, $3.28, and $3,485 an hour effective June 1, 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively. Shift differentials were raised to 8 cents for the second shift in 1971 and 13 cents for the third shift in 1972. Fringe benefit changes were highlighted by company assumption of the full cost of pensions, effective June 1, 1970. Previously, employees had contributed 4.5 per cent of annual earnings over $3,000 into the retirement fund. Also, effective June 1, 1970 for those who retired on or after June 1, 1969, the normal benefit was raised by 20 percent of the allowance accrued to January 1, 1970, and the minimum benefit for retirement at age 65, or at age 62 with 20 years of service, was raised to $5 a month for each year of creditable service. The early retirement benefit was raised 5 to 22 percent, de pending on the employee’s age at retirement. The con tract also provided that an employee with a minimum of 15 years’ service became vested for reduced pension benefits at age 65 as long as he did not withdraw his contributions from the plan. The company’s contribution towards the cost of de pendent health and welfare coverage was increased to $5 and $6 a month in 1971 and 1972, respectively. Health and welfare benefit changes included an in crease in the surgical schedule maximum to $455 in 1970, and increases in sickness and accident benefits to bring the range of payments to $50 to $92 a week in 1971 and $50 to $114 in 1972. Other changes included a nonduplication of benefits clause, improved pay ments for in-hospital diagnostic examinations by non attending physicians, and a broader definition of those who qualified as dependents due to disability. A paid holiday was added—the employee’s birth day—bringing the total to 9. Also, provisions for call-in pay and jury-duty pay were liberalized and wire and clothing pay provisions were instituted as a separate clause in the agreement. The 3-year agreement, covering 11,500 workers in 10 pulp and paper mills in 6 Southern States, was to re main in effect through May 31, 1973; there were no reopening provisions. June 1970-May 1973 The 1970 negotiations between the International Paper Co., Southern Kraft Div., and the Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers; the United Papermakers and Paperworkers; and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, began on May 12. The unions pro posed an 11 -point general program which provided for 2 additional paid holidays, wage increases of 75 cents an hour over 3 years, plus changes in pension, vacation, insurance, overtime, and shift differential provisions. The company countered with an offer of a 3-year package of wages and benefits it estimated to be worth 74.41 cents an hour. Contract talks were concluded June 29, with the negotiation of a 3-year agreement estimated by the par ties to include a total of 98.68 cents in wage and benefit improvements. The company was notified on July 3 that a majority of the three International Unions’ locals had ratified the contract. An initial 25-cent-an-hour wage increase was to go into effect on June 1, 1970, and additional 6.25-per cent increases were scheduled for June 1, 1971 and June 1, 1972. These increases, averaged over all the units, amounted to approximately 23.83 and 25.32 cents an hour, respectively. Minimum rates were raised June 1973-May 1977 Representatives of International Paper Co.’s Southern Kraft Division and the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) met on May 8, 1973, in Jackson, Miss., to begin formal con tract negotiations. The existing agreement was to ex pire on May 31. The unions’ economic demands in cluded a 50-cents-an-hour general wage increase; an increase in shift premiums; establishment of a cost-ofliving escalator clause; 2 additional paid holidays; and improved vacation, insurance, and pension benefits. The company initially offered a 3-year agreement reportedly valued at 79 cents an hour. 6 Negotiations were concluded the 1st week in July when the parties agreed on a 3-year contract. The pact covered approximately 11,000 workers at 10 facilities in South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The company valued the contract package at about $1.34 an hour. The agreement provided for a general wage increase of 30 cents an hour effective June 1, 1973, a 6.5-per cent increase, estimated to average about 30 cents an hour, effective June 1, 1974, and 6.25-percent increase also estimated to average about 30 cents, effective June 1, 1975. Some classification adjustments were made and the minimum hourly rate was raised to $3,785 on June 1, 1973, and to $4.03 and $4.28, effective June 1, 1974, and June 1, 1975, respectively. Benefit changes included improvements in the health insurance and pension programs, and a larger company contribution toward dependent hospital in surance. Employees who had reached age 62 and met all retirement obligations, could, on written request, receive vacation time accrued during the last full year prior to retirement. Liberalized wire and clothing time pay was also provided. The 3-year agreement, set to expire May 31, 1976, did not provide for a reopener. However, in mid-March 1974, officials of a number of UPIU locals urged the president of the union to seek contract reopeners with the International Paper Co. to negotiate additional wage increases to help offset the effects of inflation. The union’s first request for a reopener was rejected by the company in April 1974. In August 1974, the com pany agreed to a second request to consider a wage ad justment, with an extension of the labor agreement. Representatives of the International Paper Co., UPIU, IBEW, and the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers (which represented some workers in the Company’s Northern Division) then met on Sep tember 17 in Washington, D.C., and discussed the possibility of a cost-of-living wage increase. On September 24, the company proposed an addi tional 3'^-percent wage increase retroactive to Septem ber 1, 1974, and a June 1, 1975, wage increase of 10 percent, instead of the scheduled 6% percent. The com pany also proposed an additional 10-percent increase on June 1, 1976, and a 1-year extension of the existing agreements to May 31, 1977. The proposal was offered to locals representing employees in the Northern Divi sion, the Southern Kraft Division, and various convert ing plants. A few locals were excluded due to special circumstances. The proposal was accepted in October 1974 by employees of the Northern Division and the Woodlands Division of the South, but rejected by Southern Kraft employees. However, they reconsidered the proposal and accepted it in December 1974. The initial wage in crease for Southern Kraft employees was retroactive to November 1, 1974, rather than September 1, because they had not accepted within the time limit specified in the company proposal. The contract was scheduled to expire May 31, 1977. June 1977-May 1979 Representatives of the International Paper Com pany, Multiple Mill Group13 and the United Paperworkers International Union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers commenced formal contract negotiations on May 3, 1977 in Jackson, Mississippi. The existing contract was scheduled to ex pire May 31. The unions’ initial demands, presented on May 3, 1977, included general wage increases of $1.50 an hour in the first year and 15 percent in the second year; establishment of a cost-of-living escalator clause; four additional paid holidays; improved vacation, in surance and pension benefits; job rate adjustments, and many contract language changes. The company pro posal, presented on June 9, 1977, included general wage increase offers of 10 percent and 9.75 percent in the first and second years, respectively, plus benefit im provements, job rate adjustments, and contract language changes. The existing contract was automatically extended when negotiators were unable to reach an agreement before termination date. Both parties had agreed to ex tend talks until a settlement was reached, or until either party gave a 10-day notice of intent to terminate the ex tended agreement. On June 9, the union rejected the company’s proposal, and negotiations were recessed. On June 20, talks were resumed, and the unions served a 10-day contract termination notice on the company that same date. The parties continued discus sions that resulted in a revised offer on June 25, which was accepted by the unions. The 2-year pact, which was ratified on June 29, covered approximately 9,500 workers at 10 plants in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The unions valued the two-year wage and benefit package at about $1.71 an hour, excluding the multiplying effect on existing benefit plans, and indicated that the settlement was expected to set a pattern for settlements with other paper companies. The contract provided for a general wage increase of 10.5 percent effective June 1, 1977, averaging about 65.10 cents per hour, and a 10-percent wage increase on June 1,1978, averaging 68.97 cents per hour. It also provided for adjustments ranging from 1 cent to 18.5 cents per hour for certain job classifications. 13 In 1976, International Paper was reorganized into various Business Groups, and the term Southern Kraft Division was drop ped. The Labor Agreement now applies to the International Paper Co., Multiple Mill Group. 7 These adjustments were effective immediately before the 1977 general wage increase. Some other adjust ments, ranging from 3 cents to 25 cents per hour were retroactive to various dates, some as early as March 3, 1975. Minimum wage rates were increased to $5.57 per hour on June 1, 1977, and to $6,125 per hour on June 1, 1978. Shift premiums for second and third shifts were increased in 1977 and 1978. The new contract also provided for improvements in paid vacations, paid holidays, call-in-pay, meal allowances, and funeral leave. Substantial improvements were provided in health and welfare benefits. These improvements included an increase in the non-occupational sickness and accident benefits to a maximum of $142 per week in 1977, and to $150 per week in 1978. Life insurance coverage was increased to a maximum of $13,000. Outpatient diag nostic X-ray and medical benefits were increased to a maximum of $200 per year (combined). The number of days of covered in-hospital maternity care increased to a maximum of 120 days. Coverage for dependents was comparably expanded under the hospitalization and surgical plan. A major medical benefit plan was also established. Pension improvements included a 15-percent in crease in normal benefits for future retirees and in crease in the minimum monthly benefit rate, to $9 a month for each year of credited service; an lowered eligibility requirements for early and disability retire ments. The company also agreed to refund contribu tions employees had made to the fund prior to 1970, when the pension plan became noncontributory. The unions estimated that under the new contract approx imately 8,000 employees received an average of $3,000, in three installments. The following tables bring this wage chronology up to date through the May 31, 1979, contract termination date. 8 Table 1. General wage changes1 Effective date June 1, 1937 (PSPMW-UPPIBEW agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938)2 Sept. 1, 1938 (agreement dated June 1, 1938) Feb. 19, 1939 (agreement dated March 31, 1939) June 1, 1940 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1941 (agreement of same date) Nov. 16, 1941 (agreement dated Dec. 9, 1941) June 1, 1942 (agreement of same date) Apr. 16, 19433....................... Aug. 15, 1943 (approved by National War Labor Board, Aug. 27, 1943) July 18, 1944 (approved by NWLB Feb. 15, 1945) Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Increase 10-percent. 5-percent decrease. Pre-Sept. 1, 1938, wage levels restored. 5 percent restored. 3 cents an hour. 7 cents an hour. 7-percent, averaging 4.8 cents an hour. 4 cents an hour. 1.5 cents an hour. June 3, 19453...................................................................................................................................... Dec. 16, 19453 ..................... 2 .5 cents an hour in lieu of shift differential plus 13-percent, averaging 10.6 cents an hour. June 1, 19463 6 to 10 cents an hour, averaging 8.1 cents. June 1, 19473 ....................... 15 cents an hour. June 1, 1948 (agreement of same date) 5 to 13 cents an hour, averaging 9.4 cents. Hours increased to 48 per week. Increase of 1.4 percent (0.9 cents an hour when averaged over all employees in the bargaining unit) resulting from equalization of white-black common labor rates. In addi tion, adjustments made in wage rates of selected classifications. In addition retroactive wage adjustments designed to eliminate intraplant inequities. Adjustments ranged from 2 cents to 8 cents an hour for more than 600 workers. Adjustments in wage rates of selected classifications. 2.5 cents in lieu of shift differential which was removed ad ded to rates and then 13 percent applied. Reduction in workweek from 48 to 42 hours. In addition, adjustments in wage rates for approximately 1,350 employees. Increases varied as follows: Hourly Hourly rate increase 75 cents and under........................................... 10 cents 76 and under 82 cents..................................... 9 cents 82 and under 87 cents..................................... 8 cents 87 and under 91 cents..................................... 7 cents 91 cents and o v e r............................................. 6 cents In addition, 1 to 14 cents an hour adjustments in wage rates for selected classifications approved by Wage Stabiliza tion Board, Aug. 7, 1946, for more than 800 employees. In addition, adjustments in wage rates for more than 2,100 employees. Increases varied as follows: Hourly rate $1.00.................................................................... $1.01.................................................................... $1.02.................................................................... $1.03.................................................................... $1.04.................................................................... $1.05.................................................................... $1.06.................................................................... $1.07-$ 1.32.......................................................... $1.33 and o v e r................................................... Rates for women below $1 increased 7 percent. See footnotes at end of table. 9 Hourly increase 5 cents 6 cents 7 cents 8 cents 9 cents 10 cents 11 cents 12 cents 13 cents Table 1. Continued— General wage changes1 Effective date June 1, 1949 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1950 (agreement of same date) Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Increase Adjustments ranging from 1 to 12 cents an hour in wage rates for approximately 1,250 employees. Increases varied as follows: 7 to 10 cents an hour, averaging 8.02 cents. $1.24 $1.25 $1.42 $1.59 and and and and Hourly rate under................................................ under $ 1 .4 2 ..................................... under $ 1 .5 9 ..................................... o v e r.................................................. Hourly increase 7 cents 8 cents 9 cents 10 cents In addition, 2 to 5 cents an hour adjustments in wage rates for nearly 1,600 employees. Oct. 15, 1950 (agreement dated June 1, 1950) June 1, 1951 (approved by Wage Stabilization Board, Jan. 25, 1952) 4 percent, minimum 5 cents, averaging 5.65 cents an hour, 8 centsanhour. June 1, 1952 (approved by WSB, Nov. 26, 1952) 5 cents an hour. Dec. 1, 1952 (approved by WSB November 1952) June 1, 1953 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1954 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1955 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1956 (agreement of same date) 2 cents an hour. June 1, 1957 (agreement dated June 1, 1956) June 1, 1958 (agreement of same date) Consisted of retroactive increases of (1) 3 cents cost-of-liv ing adjustment allowable under General Wage Regula tion No. 83 4 and (2) 5 cents under General Wage Regula tion No. 6.5 In addition, 2 to 16 cents an hour adjustments in wage rates for nearly 2,100 employees. Designated by parties as 2-cent-an-hour general wage change, 2-cent cost-of-living increase, and 1-cent in lieu of company proposed hospitalization plan. In addition, 1 to 10 cents an hour adjustments in wage rates for ap proximately 1,575 employees. 3 percent, minimum 5 cents, averaging 5.35 cents an hour. 7 cents an hour. 5 percent, averaging 8.9 cents an hour. 13 cents an hour. In addition, 2 to 8 cents an hour adjustments in wage rates for approximately 850 employees. In addition, 2 to 17 cents an hour adjustments in wage rates for approximately 300 employees. In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 5 cents an hour for approximately 650 employees. In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 1 to 8 cents an hour for approximately 4,900 employees. Deferred increase effective June 1,1957. 5 percent, minimum 9 cents, averaging 10.1 cents an hour, Deferred increase. 4 to 8 cents an hour, averaging 5.05 cents an hour, Increases varied as follows: $1.85 $1.86 $2.25 $2.72 $3.14 June 1, 1959 (agreement of same date) 3 percent, minimum 7 cents, averaging 7.3 cents an hour. June 1, 1960 (agreement dated June 1, 1959). June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1962 (agreement of same date) 4 percent, minimum 8 cents, averaging 9.4 cents an hour. 3.5 cents an hour increase. and and and and and Hourly rate under.................... less than $2.25 .. less than $2.72 .. less than $3.14 .. o v e r..................... Hourly increase 4 cents 5 cents 6 cents 7 cents 8 cents In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 1 to 10 cents an hour for approximately 5,700 employees. In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 1 to 10 cents an hour for approximately 1,500 employees. Deferred increase, effective June 1,1960. Deferred increase. In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 15 cents an hour for selected classifications. In addition, women’s minimum job rate increased an addi tional 2 cents an hour. Adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 17 cents an hour for selected classifications. 3 percent, averaging 7.4 cents an hour. See footnotes at end of table. 10 Table 1. Continued— General wage changes1 Effective date Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Increase June 1, 1963 (agreement of same date) 7 cents an hour. June 1, 1964 (agreement dated June 1,1963) 3 percent, minimum 7 cents, averaging 7.9 cents an hour. June 1, 1965 (agreement of same date) 10.5 cents an hour. June 1, 1966 (agreement dated June 1,1965) June 1, 1967 (agreement of same date) 3.5 percent, averaging 9.6 cents an hour. 16 cents an hour. In addition, women’s minimum job rates increased 2 cents an hour. Adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 11.5 cents an hour for approximately 1,175 employees. Deferred increase, effective June 1,1964. Deferred increase: Women’s minimum rates increased 2 cents an hour, thereby eliminating the differential for somewhat over 300 employees. In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 20 cents an hour for approximately 1,900 employees. Deferred increase, effective June 1,1966. Deferred increase. In addition, special adjustments of 4 cents an hour for all base rated jobs and from 'k to 3 cents an hour for all other lower rated jobs, affecting approximately 2,350 employees, and other adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 18 cents an hour for approximately 3,350 additional employees. Deferred increases, effective both June 1, 1968, and June 1 1969, and a limited wage reopening, effective June 1,1969. Deferred increase. , June 1, 1968 dated June June 1, 1969 dated June (agreement 1,1967) (agreement 1,1967) 5 percent (calculated to nearest cents an hour. 17centsan hour. June 1, 1970 (agreement of same date) 25 cents an hour. June 1, 1971 (agreement dated June 1,1970) June 1, 1972 (agreement dated June 1,1970) June 1, 1973 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1974 (agreement dated June 1,1973) Nov. 1, 1974 (agreement dated Jan. 20,1975) 6'/4 percent (calculated to nearest 'ft cent), averaging 15.6 'ft cent), averaging 23.83 cents an hour. 6 ‘/4percent (calculated to nearest 1ft cent), averaging 25.32 cents an hour. 30 cents an hour. 6 'h percent (calculated to nearest 1cent), averaging about ft 30.7 an hour. 3'/i percent (calculated to nearest 'ft cent), averaging about 16.1 cents an hour. Deferred increase. Agreement also provided a 6 V2percent wage increase June 1 1974, and 6 'Upercent June 1 1975. Deferred increase. , , '/; Negotiated under an unscheduled wage reopener of the 1973 agreement. Also provided was an increase in the scheduled June 1 1975, deferred wage increase to 10 per cent (from 6 %), an additional 10 percent increase on June 1 1976, and a 1 -year extension of the contract, to May 31 1977. Increase consisted of a 6 %percent deferred increase negotiated in 1973 and an additional 3¥4 percent increase negotiated under the 1974 reopener. Deferred increase. 'ft The 10'/4 percent increase was applied following classification adjustments effective June 1, 1977, which ranged from 1 to 18.5 cents an hour. In addition some classifica tions adjustments ranging from 3 to 25 cents were made retroactive to various dates, some as early as March 3, 1975. The classification adjustment affected about 4,400 workers and averaged 5 cents when spread over all workers under the agreement. Agreement also provided for a deferred increase on June 1 1978. Deferred increase. 10 percent (calculated to nearest 'h cent), averaging about June 1, 1975 (agreement dated June 1, 1973, and Jan. 20,1975) June 1, 1976 (agreement dated Jan. 20,1975) June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) cent), averaging about 55.8 cents an hour. 10 Vi percent (calculated to the nearest 'k cent), averaging 65.10 cents an hour. June 1, 1978 (agreement o f June 1,1977) 10 percent (calculated to nearest cents an hour. 50.8 cents an hour. 10 percent (calculated to nearest Deferred increase. In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 38 cents an hour on new or changed jobs, affecting approximately 500 employees, were negotiated under a limited wage reopener in May and June 1969. In addition, special adjustments ranging from 3 to 27 cents an hour and affecting approximately 4,400 workers, and deferred general increases of 6 % percent (computed to the nearest ‘,4 cent) effective both June 1,1971 and June 1,1972. Deferred increase. , , , , cent), averaging 68.97 ’ General wage changes are general increases or decreases as well as adjustments for individual job classifications that change basic hourly rates of pay and affect a substantial number of workers. Not included are adjustments in individual rates (promotions, merit increases, etc.) and minor interim adjustments in the wage structure (such as changes in the wage rates during the contractual year for individual occupations) that do not have an immediate and noticeable effect on the average wage level. The changes listed in this table were major adjustments in the wage level made during the period covered. The sum of general changes listed will not necessarily coincide with the changes in straight-time average hourly earnings over the period of this chronology because of fluctuations in earnings, changes in products, production methods, and employment practices, the omission of nongeneral changes in rates, changes in the composition of the labor force, and other factors. 2Since the United Paperworkers International Union is a result of a merger between the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, and the United Papermakers and Paperworkers (once the In ternational Brotherhood of Papermakers) which have negotiated agree ments jointly along with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers during the entire period covered by this chronology, the usual union designations are omitted from this and subsequent tables after the first entry. 3 Date of agreement not available. * In collective bargaining situations where there was no cost-of-living escalator clause in effect, General Wage Regulation No. 8, Section 4, per mitted parties who found that the real value of wages and salaries had declined since Jan. 25,1951, to put into effect, no more frequently than ev ery 6 months, in creases that would restore the real value of those rates from Jan. 25, 1951, to date of the increase. 'General Wage Regulation No. 6 provided that, if general wage in creases since Jan. 15,1950, had been less than 10 percent, future increases "maybe permitted in amounts up to but not in excess of the difference bet ween such past increases, if any, and the permissible 10 percent.” 11 Table 2a. Beginners’ hourly wage rates, 1937-65 Men' Women’ Effective date June 1, 1937................................................................................. Sept. 1, 1938................................................................................. Feb. 19, 1939 ............................................................................... June 1, 1940................................................................................. June 1, 1941................................................................................. Nov. 16, 1941............................................................................... June 1, 1942................................................................................. June 18, 1944............................................................................... Dec. 16, 1945 ............................................................................... June 1, 1946................................................................................. June 1, 1947................................................................................. June 1, 1948................................................................................. June 1, 1950................................................................................. Oct. 15, 1950 ............................................................................... June 1, 1951................................................................................. June 1, 1952................................................................................. Dec. 1, 1952 ................................................................................. June 1, 1953................................................................................. June 1, 1954................................................................................. June 1, 1955................................................................................. June 1, 1956................................................................................. June 1, 1957................................................................................. June 1, 1958................................................................................. June 1, 1959................................................................................. June 1, 1960................................................................................. June 1, 1961................................................................................. June 1, 1962................................................................................. June 1, 1963................................................................................. June 1, 1964................................................................................. June 1, 1965................................................................................. Hiring rate2 Minimum rate2 Hiring rate2 (3) '( 3) (3) (3) (3) (3) $0.54 and $0.58 (3) .70 .80 .95 1.00 1.07 1.12 1.20 1.25 1.27 1.32 1.39 1.46 1.59 1.68 1.72 1.79 1.87 1.905 1.960 2.030 2.100 2.205 $0.40 and $0.44 .38 and .42 .40 and .44 .43 and .47 .50 and .54 .535 and .58 .575 and .62 (3) .75 .85 1.00 1.05 1.12 1.17 1.25 1.30 1.32 1.37 1.44 1.51 1.64 1.73 1.77 1.84 1.92 1.955 2.015 2.085 2.155 2.260 (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) $0.44 (3) .54 .64 .79 .86 .93 .98 1.06 1.12 1.14 1.18 1.25 1.31 1.44 1.53 1.57 1.64 1.72 1.755 1.810 1.880 1.950 2.055 Minimum rate2 (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) (3) $0.54 (3) .67 .77 .92 .99 1.06 1.11 1.19 1.24 1.26 1.31 1.38 1.45 1.58 1.67 1.71 1.78 1.86 1.895 1.975 2.065 2.155 2.260^ 1 Blacks were paid lower rates than whites until Sept. 14,1943. On peti 2 From the date of the first contract to May 31, 1951, employees tion of the company and the unions, the Fifth Regional War Labor Board ap progressed from the hiring to the minimum rate in 90 days in one step; from proved a single hiring and minimum rate for men, effective Sept. 15,1943. A June 1, 1951, the period was 30 days. single rate for women previously had been in effect. 3Not available. Table 2b. Beginners’ hourly wage rates, 1966-781 Effective date June 1, 1966 June 1, 1967 June 1,1968 June 1, 1969 June 1,1970 June 1, 1971 June 1, 1972 June 1, 1973 June 1, 1974 Nov. 1,1974. June 1, 1975 June 1, 1976 June 1,1977 June 1, 1978 1 Beginning June 1, 1966, men and women were paid the same rates. 12 Hiring rate Minimum rate $2,280 2.480 2.605 2.775 3.025 3.215 3.415 3.715 3.955 4.085 4.495 4.945 5.465 6.010 $2,340 2.540 2.665 2.835 3.085 3.280 3.485 3.785 4.030 4.165 4.580 5.040 5.570 6.125 Table 3. Supplementary compensation practices Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Effective date Shift premium pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) June 3, 1944’ ....................... Dec. 16, 1 9 4 5 '..................... No provision. Established: 4 cents an hour premium for work on 2d shift, 6 cents for 3d shift. Discontinued: All shift premiums. Dec. 1, 1952 (agreement dated June 1, 1953) June 1, 1953 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1956 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1963 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1964 (agreement of June 1, 1963) June 1, 1965 (agreement of same date) Reestablished shift premiums: 2 cents an hour premium for work on 2d or 3d shifts. Increased to: 3 cents for 2d shift, 5 cents for 3d shift. June 1, 1967 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1968 (agreement dated June 1, 1967) June 1, 1971 (agreement dated June 1, 1970) June 1, 1972 (agreement dated June 1, 1970) June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1978 (agreement dated June 1, 1977) Increased to: 7 cents for second shift, 10 cents for third shift. Basic wage rates of all workers increased 2.5 cents an hour in lieu of shift differential. (See table 1.) Shift differential included in computing overtime. Increased to: 5 cents for 2d shift, 8 cents for 3d shift. Increased to: 9 cents for 3d shift. Increased to: 6 cents for 2d shift. 0 Added: Shift differential paid dayworkers for all work after scheduled shift if 2 or more non-scheduled hours were worked. Increased to: 12 cents for third shift. Increased to: 8 cents for second shift. Increased to: 13 cents for third shift. Increased to: 10 cents for second shift and 15 cents for third shift. Increased to: 12 cents for second shift and 18 cents for third shift. Premium pay for Sunday work June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) June 1, 1951 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1956 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: Time and one-half for work on Sunday. Approved by Wage Stabilization Board. Hours worked on Sunday to be included in computing weekly overtime. Overtime pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) Time and one-half for work in excess of 8 hours a day. June 1, 1939 (agreement of same date) Added: Overtime rate paid for all hours worked in excess of 16 until employee had 8 hours’ rest. June 1, 1941 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1948 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1951 (agreement of same date) Added: Overtime rate paid for all hours when employee worked 24 consecutive hours or more. Added: Time and one-half for work in excess of 40 hours a week. Changed: Overtime rate paid for all hours worked in excess of 16 in a 24-hour period until employee had 8 hours’ rest. June 1, 1952 (agreement of same date) June 1953 (agreement of same date) Changed: Overtime rate paid for all hours when employee worked more than 16 consecutive hours until 8 hours’ rest was provided. June 1, 1956 (agreement of same date) Not applicable to shift employee who worked (1) double shifts or extra hours because worker assigned to next shift did not report, or (2) extra hours when shifts were changed. Changed: Overtime not payable to (a) employee on con tinuous operations (tour worker) who worked (1) double shift, of (2) extra hours because employee assigned to next shift did not report; (b) any employee (1) when extra hours were required for shift changes or (2) for starting or shutting down operation. Eliminated: Provisions withholding overtime pay for starting or shutting down operation. Added to contract at this time although the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act were applied since 1938. Changed: Employee working 16 hours or more paid at ap plicable rate for meal periods taken in other than first 8 hours. Next scheduled shift of employee working 16 hours not to be changed to avoid payment of overtime. Changed: Overtime rate paid employee working 24 con secutive hours for all meal periods taken. Meal period in first 8 hours not considered time worked. Added: Sunday work included in total hours worked for pur poses of computing weekly overtime. See footnotes at end of table. 13 Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Effective date Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Overtime pay— Continued June 1, 1958 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) Changed: Time and one-half paid for work in excess of 8 in a 24-hour period until employee had 8 hours’ rest. Added: First 8 hours worked and paid for at overtime rate under 16 hours provision, and hours paid for but not worked on a holiday, included in total hours worked for purposes of computing weekly overtime. Added: For hours worked on a no-work holiday (excluding birthday holiday), the holiday pay allowance for 8 hours to be included as time worked for purpose of computing weekly overtime. June 1, 1973 (agreement of same date) Holiday pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) Time and one-half for work on 4 specified holidays. No pay ment for holidays not worked. June 1, 1938 (agreement of same date) Aug. 5, 19451 ....................... Added: 1 holiday (total 5). June 1, 1946' Added: 1 paid holiday, Easter Sunday (total 4). Changed: 3 of 5 unpaid holidays to become paid holidays. Employees with 90 days’ service or more and not re quired to work to receive 8 hours’ straight-time pay on Christmas Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. June 1, 19491 June 1, 1952 (agreement dated May 31, 1952) June 1, 1954 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1958 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1959 (agreement dated June 18,1959) June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1967 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1970 (agreement of same date) Added: Christmas Eve, and Thanksgiving Day changed to paid holiday (total 6). Time and one-half plusholiday pay (double time and one-half) for work on Christmas, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Easter Sunday, and straight time plus holiday pay (double time) for work on Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving Day. Changed: Time and one-half plus holiday pay (double time and one-half) for work on all 6 recognized holidays. Easter Sunday, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Christmas Day. Only employees necessary to protect life and pro perty (steam plant, electrical power plant employees, watchmen, etc.) were required to work. Thanksgiving Day. Employees required to work on these paid holidays to receive straight-time pay and another day off with pay later in the week. To be eligible for holiday pay, employee must have worked 2 scheduled workdays pre ceding and 2 scheduled workdays following holiday. Pay not provided employee scheduled to work holiday who failed to report for personal reasons. Employee on vacation during holiday to receive holiday pay in ad dition to vacation allowance. Plants to close on Labor Day, Fourth of July, and Christmas except for those employees necessary to protect life and property. Plants to operate on Easter Sunday. Added: Pay for 1 holiday in layoff period of 90 days or less provided employee on return to work. Added: Maximum hours of work on day preceding holiday limited to 12. Eliminated: Day off with pay given to employees required to work on paid holiday. Changed: Plants to close on all holidays except Thanksgiv ing Day, which was optional. Pay for all holidays in layoff period of 90 days or less provided employee on return to work. December 26. Plants to be closed on this holiday. Added: 1 paid holiday (total 7). Added: 1 paid holiday (total 8). Added: Guaranteed 4 hours’ pay at time and one-half, in ad dition to regular holiday pay (straight-time for 8 hours) for work on scheduled no-work holidays. Added: 1 paid holiday (total 9). Changed: Sunday before Labor Day substituted for Easter Sunday as a paid no-work holiday. Changed: Eligibility requirement for paid holidays reduced to 45 days of company service. Hours paid but not worked on a holiday included in hours worked for overtime purposes. July 3. Plant closing on this holiday was to be optional. Employee’s birthday, which was to be a no-work holiday. If employee's birthday fell on another paid holiday, he could take either the day before or day after as his birth day holiday. Changed: Employee’s birthday holiday could be taken on any day during the same workweek that employee's birthday fell, provided that day selected was a scheduled work day for that employee, and that employee had ap proval of supervisor. June 1, 1973 (agreement of same date) See footnotes at end of table. 14 Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Effective date Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Holiday pay— Continued June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) Changed: July 4 holiday to an option-to-work holiday. In effect and continued: Maximum hours of work by day workers on day preceding holiday— limited to 8. Added: Maximum hours of work on day following holiday limited to 12. Holiday was July 5, which was an option-to-work holiday. Changed: Sunday before Labor Day and Labor Day to op tion-to-work holiday. July 4th and 5th to no-work holi day. 1 Holiday was December 23, which was a no-work holiday. Added: For work on a holiday which fell on a Sunday, employee paid regular holiday pay (straight-time for 8 hours) plus double time for all hours worked. Added: 1 paid holiday (total 10). June 1, 1978 (agreement dated June 1,1977) Added: 1 paid holiday (total 11). Paid vacations June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19,1938) June 1, 1939 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1941 (agreement dated May 31, 1942) June 1, 1942 (agreement of same date) June 16, 1944 (approved by N a tio n a l W ar Labo r Board, Sept. 29,1944) June 1, 1949 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1950 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: 1 week’s vacation with pay at 2 percent pre vious year’s earnings provided employee with 2 years’ continuous service or more and 1,400 hours of work in previous year. Pay in lieu of vacation, at company op tion. Changed: Eligibility requirement reduced to 1 year. Pay in lieu of vacation to equal 3 percent of earnings. Added: 2 weeks' vacation with 4 percent of previous year’s earnings provided employee with 5 years’ service or more; 6 percent when required to work during the 2 weeks. Vacation pay provided employee when employment rela tionship was terminated. Added: 3 weeks’ vacation with 6 percent of previous year’s earnings provided employee with 15 years’ service or more; 9 percent when required to work during the 3 weeks. June 1, 1951 (agreement of same date) Dec. 1, 1952 (agreement dated Nov. 29,1952) June 1, 1953 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1956 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1957 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1959 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1963 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1964 (agreement dated June 1,1963) June 1, 1965 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1966 (agreement dated June 1, 1965) June 1 1967 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1970 (agreement of same date) Employee permitted to take up to 2 weeks’ unpaid vacation a year, on 30 days' written notice. Continuous employment broken only by discharge for cause or voluntary separation. Added: Vacation pay at appropriate rate, but not vacation, provided employee unable to work 1,400 hours in pre vious year because of occupational injury. Changed to: 2 weeks’ vacation after 3 years’ continuous service. Added: Employee permitted to charge against vacation: ab sences due to his own illness or death in family. Reduced: Minimum hours worked in previous year—to 1,040. Added: 4 weeks’ vacation with 8 percent of previous year’s earnings provided employee with 25 years’ service or more; 12 percent is required to work the 4 weeks. Changed to: 3 weeks’ vacation after 10 years’ continuous service. Changed to: 4 weeks’ vacation after 23 years' continuous service. Changed to: 4 weeks’ vacation after 20 years’ continuous service. Added: 5 weeks' vacation with 10 percent of previous year’s earnings provided employee with 30 years’ service or more; 15 percent when required to work the 5 weeks. Changed: 4 weeks' vacation after 15 years’ continuous service. Changed: 5 weeks’ vacation after 25 years’ continuous ser vice, 6 weeks with 12 percent of previous year’s earnings after 30 years, 18 percent when required to work the 6 weeks. Changed: 3 weeks' vacation after 8 years of continuous service. Pro rata vacation provided employee with 3 years’ service or more when terminated. Added: Pro rata vacation pay provided employee with 3 years’ service or more but less than 1,040 hours of work in previous year. Changed: For employee working less than 1,040 hours in previous year, service requirement for pro rata vacation pay (with no scheduled time off) reduced to 1 year. See footnotes at end of table 15 Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Effective date Paid vacations—Continued June 1, 1974 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) Changed: 5 weeks’ vacation after 20 years of continuous service. Added: Employee committed to retire at age 62 or later on written request was permitted to waive vacation earned and due to be taken in the last full year of employment prior to retirement and receive vacation pay in lieu. Such employee also, on request, permitted to defer until the date of retirement any vacation and vacation pay earned during the last full year of employment prior to retire ment. Changed: If an employee lost a partial work week due to temporary curtailed plant operations, an election could be made to accumulate each short period of less than a full week up to 5 work days, and such time could then be charged to vacation time with regular vacation pay. Added: Occupational injury—regularly scheduled work hours lost credited as hours worked in computing vaca tion pay in vacation year in which injury occurred and the following vacation year. Call-in pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) June 1, 1939 (agreement of same date) Minimum of 3 hours’ pay guaranteed employee called to perform repair or maintenance work; 4 hours’ guaran teed employee called to change paper machine wires. Changed: 4-hour guarantee extended to repair and mainte nance work and changing Fourdrinier wires, welt felts, and dryer felts. June 1, 1951 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1952 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1956 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1959 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1962 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1970 (agreement of same date) Not applicable to employees on extra board who were re quired to report for work regularly until assigned to regular job. Added: When regular plus extra hours worked exceeded 8, employee to be paid greater of sum due under call-in or overtime provisions. Not applicable to employee held over at end of shift. Changed: Guarantee made applicable to employee on extra board. Added: Not applicable to employee in mill yard or called-in for planned, anticipated, or predetermined work. Added: Guarantee made applicable to employee required to work beyond regular shift to change paper machine wires and employee called-in at other than designated starting time to perform emergency work. Added: Guarantee extended to any work on paper machine proper. Added: Guarantee extended to any work of 2 hours and 40 minutes or less that was not a continuation of a regular shift. Changed: Guarantee extended to planned, anticipated, and predetermined work. Added: Guarantee extended to day workers called back to work after shift was completed. Changed Guarantee extended to employee in mill yard when called-in to work. Added: Employee who had not had an 8-hour rest period, and was required to work 2 hours and 40 minutes or less which was not a continuation of a regular shift, was paid according to overtime or call-in provisions, whichever resulted in higher net pay. Reporting pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19,1938) June 1, 1941 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: Minimum of 2 hours’ work guaranteed employee called to work or not properly notified of lack of work. June 1, 1951 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1958 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) Added: Minimum 4 hours’ pay guaranteed employee put to work. Changed: Minimum of 2 hours’ pay guaranteed employee not put to work. See footnotes at end of table. 16 Not applicable when lack of work was caused by conditions beyond control of company or to extra men assigned to roster containing larger work force than was required. Extra board employee required to report at specific times or for specific shifts to be eligible for minimum guarantee after accumulating 30 days' service. Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Effective date Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision j Reporting pay— Continued June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) Changed: Employee who started a scheduled shift and then was rescheduled to a later period within the 24 hour period after start of the scheduled shift because of emergency, to receive 4 hours straight time pay for the rescheduled period plus not less than 4 hours pay for working the rescheduled period. Paid rest periods June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) June 1, 1951 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established for women employees in Mobile bag factory and all continuous finishing room operations—two 10minute paid rest periods. Paid sick leave June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) June 1, 1955 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1963 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: 40 hours' paid sick leave at regular hourly rate provided employee with 6 months’ service or more in capacitated 2 weeks or more by sicknessor nonoccupational injury. Eliminated: Sick leave pay. Employee required to provide medical evidence of inability to perform duties. Leave limited to 1 illness in contract year. See “Insurance plan.” Jury duty pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) June 1, 1959 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: Difference between straight-time hourly rate times regular scheduled hours (8-hour period) and statutory fee paid employee while serving on jury. Jury duty not included in hours worked for overtime pur poses. Added: Employee scheduled to work the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift immediately before serving the first day of jury duty was not required to work but was paid for that shift at his scheduled straight-time rate. June 1, 1970 (agreement of same date) Severance pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19,1938) June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) No provision. June 1, 1967 (agreement of same date) Increased to: Maximum of 2 percent of total earnings during last period of unbroken employment. Established: Plan providing employee with 1 year’s service or more, laid-off because of lack of work, with maximum of 1 percent of total earnings during last period of unbroken employment. Half benefit paid after 6 weeks’ layoff, remainder after 3 months. Unpaid benefits (1) not paid to employee recalled and who returned to work before payment was due, (2) canceled for employee recalled before receipt of benefit if he did not return to work. New earnings credits to be accumulated on return to work. Employee recalled before 3-month period to retain credit for unpaid balance of severance benefits. Funeral leave June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 19, 1938) June 1, 1959 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: Up to 3 paid days of absence at regular straight-time rate allowed because of death in immedi ate family. June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) See footnotes at end of table. 17 Immediate family defined as spouse, mother, father, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters. Paid leave limited to day before, day of, and day after funeral, and to 8 hours a day for absences that fell on scheduled days of work. No pay provided employee who did not attend funeral. Not included in hours worked for overtime purposes. Added: To definition of immediate family— mother-in-law and father-in-law Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Effective date i Funeral leave—Continued June 1, 1973 (agreement of same date) Changed: Paid funeral leave absence could be for any 3 consecutive days, one of which to be the day of funeral (previously, the day before, the defy of the funeral, and the day after were specified as the 3 days to be taken). Added: Definition of family to include step parents where employee lived in same household with step parents or where legal adoption occurred. Added: Funeral leave to cover grandmothers and grand fathers. June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) Mealtime pay June 1, dated June 1, dated 1937 (agreement Jan. 16, 1938) 1951 (agreement Oct. 12,1951) Dec. 2, 1952 (agreement dated Nov. 29, 1952) June 1, 1953 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: Paid meal period, but not meals provided employee after 3 hours’ work beyond assigned shift and at 5-hour intervals thereafter. Changed: Meal periods provided (1) day-workers after 2 hours on extended shift, and (2) shift workers at approx imately regular meal intervals during extended shift. Changed: Paid meal period provided before start of over time and each 5 hours thereafter to employee required to work overtime after assigned 12-hour shift June 1, 1958 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1961 (agreement of same date) Changed: Paid meal periods provided shift workers on dou ble shifts. June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) Added: $2 meal allowance provided: (1) day workers after working 2 hours beyond assigned shift and at 5 hour in tervals thereafter; (2) dayworkers after an assigned 12 hour shift,and at5hour intervals thereafter; (3) fo r“tour workers held over (including a holdover for wire and/or clothing change)”, and (4) employees called in who work more than 5 hours on the call in. Meal periods limited to 30 to 40 minutes. Not applicable to employee who exchanged shifts at own request. One-half hour’s pay at overtime rates in lieu of meal period provided employee required to work up to 1 hour beyond regular schedule. Women in Mobile bag factory and all continuous finishing room operations provided 20-minute paid lunch period. Added: Company to send and pay for meal of employee una ble to leave job at designated meal periods. Employee required to work part of lunch period could elect full lunch period later in shift. Meal periods to be provided at approximately regular mealtimes during additional shift. Changed: Women in Mobile bag factory and all continuous finishing room operations—20 minute paid lunch period in mills with 2 shifts limited to 2d shift. Previous practice continued in mills with 3 shifts. Wire and clothing time pay June 1, 1937 (agreement dated Jan. 16, 1938) June 1, 1970 (agreement of same date) No provision. Established: Minimum 6 hours’ pay guaranteed employee who worked other than on his regular shift in putting in paper machine wires ancVor paper machine clothing and/or who worked on the paper machine proper bet ween the fan pump and the winder inclusive, during wire and/or clothing changes. See footnotes at end of table. 18 This time previously considered as call-in time and paid as such. Employee to do any other work required during the wire and/or clothing changes or incidental to the start-up of the machine after such changes. Employee engaged in both wire and clothing changes dur ing the same work period to be paid on the basis of the wire time provision. The6-hour minimum for wire and/or clothing changes not to apply during a scheduled repair shutdown provided notice was posted at least 16 hours before the shutdown. Employee was not eligible for both call time and wire and/or clothing time for work on wire and clothing changes. Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Increase Effective date Wire and clothing time pay— Continued June 1, 1973 (agreement of same date) Added: Employee who was called in for wire and clothing time after having worked 16 consecutive hours, but before having 8 hours rest period, engaged at time other than the period of employee’s regular shift in putting on paper machine wires anchor paper machine clothing and/or who worked on the paper machine proper bet ween the fan pump and the winder inclusive during wire and/or clothing changes wod Id receive no less than (1)6 hours' pay at employee’s straight-time rate or the over time rate for hours worked, whichever was greater; or (2) time and one-half for all hours worked until employee was given 8-hour rest period whichever would net employee the most compensation. Insurance plans June 1, 1937. Sept. 1,1938 Oct. 1, 1947 June 1, 1950. Dec. 1,1952. June 1, 1954 June 1, 1955. Contributory plan available to employees with 6 months’ service or more, providing: Life insurance—$1,000 to $3,000 depending on annual earn ings.2 Accidental death or dismemberment— Death—double face value of life insurance. Dismemberment—one-half to full face value of life insurance depending on extent of loss. Total and permanent disability benefits—$51.04 to $54 a month for 20 to 40 months.2 Sickness and accident benefits— $10 to $20 a week for maximum of 26 weeks2 for each nonoccupational disability; payable from 8th day of disability. Visiting nurse service—provided in home, as necessary. Added: For retired employees: Life and accidental death or dismemberment—face value of insurance at time of retirement made available to employee with 15 years' service or more and eligible under the pension plan, at cost of 60 cents per $1,0003 Added: For retired employees: Life and accidental death or dismemberment—face value of insurance at time of retirement provided without cost to employee, with 15 years’ service or more and eligible under pension plan. Changed to: Sickness and accident benefits—$10 to $26 a week.4 Increased: Sickness and accident benefits—maximum to $28.5 Added: Noncontributory hospital-surgical-medical plan for em ployees with 6 months’ service or more, providing:6 Hospitalization: Room and board— up to $12 a day, maximum $840. Special services—up to $150. Maternity obstetrical— $150 for normal delivery, $75 to $225 for other procedures. Medical care: Doctor's services—$4 for each hospital visit, maximum $250. Surgical benefits: Surgical schedule—up to $250. See footnotes at end of table. 19 Plans established in 1923, not covered by collective bargaining agreement. Employee weekly contributions were 25 cents of annual earnings under $1,500,50 cents if $1500 but under $2,500, and 75 cents if $2,500 or over. Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance in creased $100 for each year’s service up to 5. Employee with annual earnings of $2,500 but less than $5,000 per mitted to subscribe to additional $2,000 coverage (at cost of 35 cents a week); employee earning $5,000 or more could subscribe for the $2,000 (at the stated rate) plus $5,000 additional coverage (at cost of 83 cents a week). In addition to total and permanent disability benefits. Paid in lieu of death benefits. All insurance: Coverage levels maintained for disabled employee required to accept job with lower than pre disability wage rate; company to pay difference between contribution required at former and new earnings. Company assumed entire contributons of employee dis abled 8 days or more. Insurance extended 6 months for employee temporarily laid off or on approved leave of absence; employee to con tinue contributions. Employee who retired in good health before age 65 required to contribute to that age.3 Insurance continued without cost during period retiree received sickness and acci dent benefits or workmen's compensation, up to 26 weeks. Coverage extended up to 2 months during periods of tem porary layoff; to termination of scheduled services for hospitalization and pregnancy, in effect on date employ ment relationship ceased, or surgery performed prior to that date. Retired employees’ benefits provided for 1 dis ability in each 12-month period. Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Effective date Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Insurance plans— Continued June 1,1956......................... June 1,1958......................... Increased to: Sickness and accident benefits—$15 to $40 a week. Added: For retired employment: Life and accidental death or dismemberment insurance— reduced coverage at company expense provided employee retired at age 65 with 10 but less than 15 years’ service.1 June 1, 1959, June 1, 1961, Added: Company to contribute $2 a month towards cost of d e p en d e n ts’ h o s p ita l-s u rg ic a l-m e d ic a l benefits. Benefits identical to those provided employee. Changed: Company assumed full cost of life, accidental death and dismemberment, and sickness and accident insurance for active employees. Added: All group insurance extended up to 8 weeks, at com pany expense, for employee temporarily laid off through no fault of his own; could be extended additional 4 months by payment of contribution by employee. Eliminated: Opportunity to elect additional insurance. Increased: Life insurance— maximum to $10,000.9 Total and permanent disability benefits— maximum, to $180 a month for 66 months. Sickness and accident benefits— $20 to $50 a week.* Maternity benefits up to 6 weeks added. Ch anged: fo r emp toyees an d dependents, h ospita l-su rg icalmedical program— from indemnity to service (Blue Cross-Blue Shield) benefit plan providing: V Hospitalization: Room and board—up to 70 days per admission; in member hospital, full semiprivate room charge; in non member hospital, actual charges up to $10 a day. Special services—for charges other than room and board, in member hospitals fu II coverage up to 70 days an admis sion for the following services: Use of operating, recov ery and treatment rooms and equipment, drugs and medicines for use in hospital; dressings, ordinary splints and plaster casts, and when provided and billed as a regular hospital service, laboratory and X-ray examina tions, electrocardiograms, intravenous injections and solutions, physical therapy, oxygen and its administra tion, administration of blood and blood plasma, and anesthetics and their administration. In nonmember hospitals, 75 percent of actual charges for services and supplies listed for member hospitals. Emergency care— in member and non-member hospitals, charges for emergency surgical or medical care and treatment within 24 hours of accident. Maternity benefits—full coverage for hospital charges for maximum of 10 days. Surgical benefits—surgical schedule up to $300. Anesthesia—greater of $15 or 20 percent of scheduled surgical fee for administration of anesthesia by doctor not in charge of case. Obstetrical benefits—up to $90 for normal delivery, $60 to $250 for other procedures. Medical benefits— doctor's services up to $4 for each of maximum of 70 hospital visits. Diagnostic X-ray exam inations—$5 to $35, maximum $50 in 12 consecutive months. Laboratory services—$10 to $25, maximum $50 in 12 con secutive months. See footnotes at end of table. 20 Company to continue paying full cost of employee coverage; contribution for dependents increased to $3 a month. Dependent defined as a spouse and children (1) under 19 years of age, (2) if full time student, to age 23, or (3) dur ing period of permanent incapacity. Employee using private room in member hospital to pay difference between that charge and hospital’s average charge for semiprivate accommodations, up to $10 a day. Benefits limited to 30 days in 12 consecutive months for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis or mental or ner vous disorders. Supplies and services available only to bed patients and limited to drugs and medicines listed in official formul aries. Hospitalization benefits not available for: Services of doc tors and technicians not employed by hospital or special nurses; occupational disabilities or those for which treatment was provided by statute; chronic alcoholism or drug addiction after diagnosis; diagnostic studies or tests or physical therapy; plastic surgery or cosmetic treatment unless necessary to correct traumatic injury; personal comfort services; X-ray and radium therapy and radium isotopes; blood or blood plasma; convalescent care; dental care by other than licensed doctor of medicine unless necessitated by accident, special braces, appliances or equipment. Up to 70 days’ hospitalization provided for ectopic pregnan cies. Surgical and medical exclusions almost identical to hospitalization exclusions. Limited to 1 treatment a day. Not available for patient who had received surgical or obstetrical care. Available for pulmonary tuberculosis or mental disorders up to 30 days in 12 consecutive months. Not available for: Pregnancy, care of teeth, research studies, screening, routine physical or premarital examinations, routine hospital admission procedures, fluoroscopy without films, or examinations not necessary to a diag nosis. Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Effective date Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Insurance plans— Continued June 3, 1963. Increased to: Sickness and accident benefits—$50 to $70 a week payable from first day of hospitalization or acci dent and 4th day of sickness.10 Increased: Total and permanent disability benefits— minimum to $90 a month.10 June 1, 1967 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1969 (agreement dated June 1, 1967) Sept. 1, 1970 (agreement of June 1, 1970) June 1, 1971 (agreement June 1,1970) June 1, 1972 (agreement June 1,1970) June 1, 1973 (agreement same date) Sept. 1, 1973 (agreement June 1, 1973) of of Added: Company assumed full cost of group life insurance for early retirees (retired at age 62 or older with 20 years or more of continuous employment). Increased: Company contributon to dependent hospital in surance—to $4 a month. Increased: Surgical benefits— surgical schedule maximum to $455, unless fixed fee surgical schedule provided greater allowance. Changed: Anesthesia—to 20 percent of surgical schedule allowance (was greater of $15 or 20 percent). Increased: Sickness and accident benefits—to range from $50 to $92 a week.11 Increased: Sickness and accident benefits—to range from $50 to $114 a week.11 of of June 1, 1975 (agreement of June 1, 1973) June 1, 1976 (agreement of June 1, 1973) June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) Discontinued: 1 week’s paid sick leave a year at 40 times hourly rate. Added: Benefits available under Blue Cross/Blue Shield Health Program to be coordinated with those payable under other plans to prevent duplication of benefits. Changed: Plan to provide payment to physician other than attending physician for interpretation or performance of radiological procedures and surgical and clinical pathological procedures, or examinations rendered hospital bed patients, on basis of physician's claim after service. Payment not made if service was covered as hospital benefit. Changed: Dependent definition for permanently disabled children to include only those so disabled before reach ing age 19. Company contribution for dependent health coverage in creased to $5 a month. Company contribution for dependent health coverage in creased to $6 a month. Company contribution for dependent health coverage in creased to $7 a month. Increased: Surgical benefits—surgical schedule to maxi mum $600, unless fixed fee surgical schedule provided greater allowance. Changed: Diagnostic X-ray examinations—to range of $5 to $40, maximum $50 for each eligible patient during a period of 12 consecutive months. Increased: Hospitalization—room and board up to a max imum of 120 days per admission. Changed: Dependent definition— an employee’s unmarried child between 19 and 23 years of age who was a full-time student in a recognized course of study or training but could not be employed on a regular full-time basis and had to be chiefly dependent upon the employee for sup port. The term child also was to include any blood des cendant of the first degree who was supported by the employee, but did not permanently reside in the employee’s household. Added: Surviving spouse coverage— If employee with a minimum of 15 years of service or a retiree while receiv ing pension died, surviving spouse could continue coverage for self and eligible dependents, provided they were covered at time of death of employee or retiree. Surviving spouse and eligible dependents would lose insurance coverage if: (1) Employed and eligible for group health in surance; (2) Failed to pay the full premium for coverage; (3) Remarried; or (4) Died Increased: Company contribution for dependent health coverage to $10 a month. Increased: Company contribution for dependent health coverage to $20 a month. Increased: Sickness and accident benefits maximum to $142 a week.12. Increase: Life insurance— maximum to $13,000.13 See footnotes at end of table. 21 Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Effective date Insurance plan— Continued Sept. 1, 1977 (agreement of June 1, 1977) June 1, 1978 (agreement of June 1, 1977) Sept. 1, 1978 (agreement of June 1, 1977) Increased: Surgical benefits— surgical schedule maximum to $900, unless fixed fee surgical schedule provided greater allowance. Changed: $200 maximum per covered member during a calendar year for outpatient diagnostic x-ray examina tion and pathological examination on an out-patient basis which were necessary for the diagnosis of an ill ness or injury. Added: Provision to pay physician for treatment of any acci dental injury, which included physician’s services for xray or any service required to treat the specific injury derived from an accident. Improved: Emergency care— limitation for surgical or medi cal care for outpatient—emergency treatment to 72 hours (was 24). Established: Major medical expense plan, which paid 80 percent of first $5,000 of usual, customary and reasona ble charges in excess of basic plan benefits and $100 deductible and 100 percent of charges over $5,000, up to maximum of $250,000 per individual per lifetime (also an nual maximum). Mental and nervous disorder paid for at 50 percent of charges. Increased: Maternity benefits—full coverage for hospital charges to 120 days (was 10). Once two members of a family met the calendar year deduc tible for a particular year, no other member was subject to the requirement. Major medical covered major medical expenses, with cer tain limitations: Semi-private hospital room and board, $5 a day toward charges for private accommodations (when medically necessary); doctors service for medical and surgical care; registered or licensed practical nurs ing care; laboratory and x-ray examination and treat ment; prescription drugs and medicine and blood; ox ygen, casts, splints and dressing, prosthetic appliances and braces, rental of iron lung, wheelchair, hospital bed or other medically necessary mechanical appliances, ambulance service; treatment for accidental injury to natural teeth or jaw. Increased: Sickness and accident benefits— maximum to $150 a week.12 Increased: Surgical benefits—surgical schedule maximum to $1,000, unless fixed fee surgical schedule provided greater allowance. Retirement plan Jan. 1, 1937 Feb. 1, 1946 No provision. Established: Contributory plan requiring employee con tributions and company payments and providing benefits (in addition to Federal old-age, survivors’ and disability insurance) as follows: Contributions: Employee—2'/< percent of first $3,000 annual earnings and 4V4 percent of remainder up to $15,000; company—actuarially determined amounts sufficient to fund prior service credits and, with employee contribu tions, to provide benefits based on service after plan was established. Normal retirement annuity—employee aged 65 or older to receive: (1) For service after plan was established, basic annual benefits equal to the sum of 0.75 percent of first $3,000 earned plus 1.5 percent of earnings above $3,000 but not in excess of $15,000 times credited years in plan, plus (2) for 6th and subsequent years of company serv ice before plan was established and after reaching age 30, basic annual benefits of 0.5 percent of first $3,000 and 1 percent of earnings above $3,000, but not in ex cess of $15,000 times credited years of service. Early retirement annuity—employee aged 55 but under 65 with 20 years’ service or more retired with consent or at request of company cou Id elect (1) immediate actuarially reduced annuity, or (2) deferred normal benefit payable at age 65. See footnotes at end of table. 22 Plan was established Jan. 1, 1945; benefits were first paid and employee contributions were collected on effective date shown. To be eligible to participate, employee must have (1) been 30 years of age or over, (2) been regularly employed full time, and (3) had 5 years’ service since last break in ser vice of more than 12 months. Benefits of employee whose plan coverage was discon tinued for any reason, except military or other approved leave, to be based on earnings in last period of service after rejoining plan. Annual earnings for period before plan was established based on, 2,496 hours at basic hourly rate in effect im mediately prior to establishment of plan. Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Effective date Retirement plan— Continued Feb. 1, 1946— Continued Joint and survivorship option— providing actuarially reduced annuities to employee and beneficiary. June 1, 1950. Increased: Contributions— maximum income on which contributions were paid—to $30,000. Normal retirement annuity— maximum earnings used to compute annuity, to $30,000. Added: Vesting—employee age 50 or over with 25 years cre dited service or more terminated for any reason could elect (1) deferred normal annuity at age 65 based on compensation and service at termination, or (2) to with draw own contribution plus interest. Added: Disability retirement annuity— immediate actuarially reduced annuity provided employee totally and perma nently disabled. Added: Disability retirement annuity— immediate normal annuity, based on earnings and service, provided totally and permanently disabled employee with 25 years’ service or more. Added: Minimum monthly annuity—$50 for employee with 15 years’ service or more at age 65, reduced propor tionately for less than 15 years' service. Reduced: Vesting— age, to 45; years of credited service to Dec. 1, 1952. June 1, 1955. June 1, 1958. Employee could elect amount payable to beneficiary upon death after his retirement equal to or one-half basic benefit or any other proportion acceptable to retirement board. Contributions plus interest paid beneficiary of employee who died before retiring; balance of contribution paid beneficiary of retiree who died, without electing optional benefits, before benefits equaled contributions. Reduced: Service required to participate in plan since last break in service in excess of 12 months, to 3 years. Applicable to employee retiring after May 31,1958. Added: For employee retired before June 1, 1958, supple mental allowance provided by company continued. 20 . June 1, 1961. July 1, 1963 O ct 1, 1963 . June 1, 1965. June 1, 1966. June 1, 1967 (agreement of same date) Increased: Normal retirement annuity—by one-third for cre dited service before Jan. 1, 1961. Changed: Minimum monthly annuity—$50 for employee with 15 but less than 20 years* service, $55for20but less than 25 years, and $60 for 25 years or more; employee with less than 15 years to receive, annually, $40 times years of service. Changed: Disability retirement annuity— immediate annuity based on earnings and service at time of disability for employee with (1) less than 20 years' service—normal annuity actuarially reduced for years below 65, (2) 20 years' service or more— normal annuity. Removed: $30,000 limit on earnings. Reduced:Contributionsof employee on first $3,000 annual earnings, by 25 percent. D isa b ility retirem ent an nu ity— service required for unreduced benefits, to 15 years. Increased: Normal retirement annuity— all benefits earned before Jan. 1,1965, by 15 percent; for service after Dec. 31, 1964— by 0.875 percent of first $3,000 earned. Added: Early retirement annuity—employee aged 62 but under65 with 20 years' serviceorm oreto receive full an nuity based on years of service and earnings. Joint and survivorship option— spouse of employee aged 63 or over with 30 years1 service or more who died before receiving annuity, could elect to receive a benefit under a 50-percent survivorship option. Reduced: Contributions—by additional 25 percent of original contribution. Eliminated: Contributions—of employees on first $3,000 an nual earnings (advanced from June 1,1968 date negoti ated in 1965). June 1, 1969 (agreement dated June 1, 1967) Changed: Employee who was a contributory member of plan on June 1, 1965, or joined plan within 90 days, and who (1) had discontinued contributions after a prior period of membership, (2) had been employed continuously, and (3) had not withdrawn contributions, to have benefits based on all earnings while a member of plan. Employee must have designated, 60 days or more before death, widow as beneficiary with rights to receive ac cumulated contributions. Spouse to receive one-half benefit employee would have received had he retired. Added: Any benefit changes negotiated in 1970 were to ap ply to employees retired during third year of labor con tract (June 1 , 1969-May 31,1970). See footnotes at end of table. 23 Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Provision Effective date Retirement plan— Continued June 1, 1970 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1973 (agreement of same date) June 1, 1974 (agreement dated June 1, 1973 Eliminated: Employee contributions to plan. Increased: Normal retirement annuity— by 20 percent of allowance accrued before Jan. 1, 1970. This included allowance based on prior service (before 1945) and allowance based on membership service (1945 to 1970). Minimum monthly annuity— eligible member retiring age 65 to receive $5 a month a year of credited service during which he worked 1,000 hoursor more. Minimum annuity extended to eligible members who retired at age 62 with 20 years of service or more. Increased: Monthly annuity of previously retired employees by 1.5 percent for each year between effective date of retirement and June 1, 1969. Changed: Vesting—employee with 15 years of service and terminated for any cause, except death or retirement under plan, entitled to deferred pension provided he did not withdraw accumulated contributions to the plan and applied for pension at or after age 65. Increased: Early retirement annuity—employee under age 62 and with 20 years or more of service to receive 50 to 92 percent (was 45 to 70 percent) of normal pension, de pending on age at retirement.14 Increased: Normal retirement annuity— by 10 percent of allowance accrued to Jan. 1,1973. Applied to prior ser vice (before Jan. 1, 1945) and to membership service (Jan. 1, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1973). Increased: Monthly annuity of retirees who retired before June 1,1973 by 2 percent per year for each full or partial year of retirement between retirement date and Dec. 31, 1974. Liberalized: Benefits for former members of the pension plan. Added: $7.50 month benefit for each year of service (maximum 3) prior to initial membership in retirement plan, in addition to other benefits for which retiree was eligible under the plan. Increased: Minimum monthly annuity for eligible members retiring at age 65—to $6 a month times years of credited service which member worked 1,000 hours or more. Increase also extended to eligible members who retired at age 62 with 20 years of service or more. Increased: Normal retirement .annuity—by 7 'h percent of allowance accrued to Jan. 1,1973. Applied to prior ser vice (before Jan. 1, 1945) and to membership service (Jan. 1, 1945 to Jan. 1,1973). Increased: Minimum monthly annuity for eligible members retiring at age 65 and those retiring at age 62 with 20 years of service or more—to $6.50 a month times years of credited service during which member worked 1,000 hours or more. Changed: Surviving spouse’s benefits— spouse of a mem ber of the plan, age 60 or over with 30 years of service or more who died before commencing to receive a pension, cou Id elect to receive same allowance as if member had retired just before death and had designated the spouse as beneficiary under the 50 percent option. Changed: Vesting eligibility reduced to 12 years of service. Changed: Disability retirement annuity—service required for unreduced benefits— to 12 years. See footnotes at end of table. 24 Applicable to those who retired on or after June 1,1969. Applicable to employees who retired before June 1, 1969, and who received retirement allowance. Increased: Interest on members’ account to 4.5 percent per year compounded annually (was 3.5 percent). Applicable for retirement between June 1,1973, and May 31, 1974. For those retiring on or after June 1, 1973—employee who, during last period of continuous employment, had (1) been a contributing member of the pension plan for a prior period, (2) stopped contributing although working continuously for the company, (3) left the contributions in the plan and (4) subsequently rejoined the plan, would receive credit toward pension calculation for all periods of service for which employee made required contributions to the plan. A p p lica b le for retirem ent betw een and May 31,1974. June 1, 1973, Applicable for retirement between June 1,1973, and May 31, 1974. Applicable for retirement between June 1,1974, and May 31, 1975. Applicable for retirement between June 1,1974, and May 31, 1975. Employee must have designated spouse as beneficiary 60 days or more before death, for spouse to receive choice of refund of member accumulated contributions or onehalf benefit employee would have received had employee retired. Age requirement continued to be 65. Table 3. Continued— Supplementary compensation practices Effective date Applications, exceptions, and other related matters Increase Retirement plan— Continued Dec. 31, 1974 (agreement dated June 1, 1973) Changed: Vesting eligibility reduced to 10 years of service. June 1, 1975 (agreement dated June 1, 1973) Increased: Normal retirement annuity— by 5 percent of allowance accrued to Jan. 1, 1973. Applied to prior service (before Jan. 1,1945) and to membership service (Jan. 1,1945 to Jan. 1,1973). Changed: $7.50 month benefit for each year of service (max imum ii) prior to initial membership in retirement plan, in addition to other benefits for which retiree was eligible under the plan. Increased: Minimum monthly annuity for eligible members retiring at age 65 and to those retiring at age 62 with 20 years of service or more to $7.50 a month times years of credited service during which member worked 1,000 hours or more. Employee who retired on or after Jan. 1, 1975 to receive retirement benefits computed under old formula or an alternate formula, whichever resulted in larger pension: Old formula— V*of 1 percent of first $3,000earnings for years of membership service prior to Jan. 1,1965; plus %of 1 percent of first $3,000 earnings for years of membership service after Jan. 1, 1965; plus 1 'A percent of earnings over $3,000 for each year of membership service (based on career average earnings); plus all applicable in creases to accrued benefits and applicable waiting period benefits. Alternate formula: %of 1 percent of first $6,600; plus 1'/«percent of balance multiplied by all years of service to December 31, 1973 for all workers who joined the plan when first eligible (based on 1973 earnings rather than career average earnings); plus, for 1974 service, 7A of 1 percent of the first $3,000 and 1 'A percent of balance ap plied to 1974 earnings; plus for future service that began January 1,1975,1 percent of first $3,000 and 1 'A percent of balance up to Social Security wage base, plus 2 per cent of balance over wage base applied to annual earn ings. Increased: Normal retirement annuity—by 15 percent of allowance accrued to Jan. 1, 1977. June 1, 1977 (agreement of same date) Changed: Early retirement at age 55 with a minimum of 15 years of service. Changed: Pre-retirement survivor benefit— annual reduc tion charge reduced to .60 percent (was .75 percent) where eligible employee elected pre-retirement survivor option. Reduced: Disability retirement annuity—service require ment for unreduced benefits to 10 years. Established: Employee retiring at age 60 or above permitted to convert half of post-retirement group life insurance to cash equivalent. Changed: Eligibility for participation in retirement plan reduced from 3 years to date of employment. Applicable for retirement on or after June 1,1975. Applicable for retirement on or after June 1, 1973. Applicable for retirement on or after June 1, 1975. Applied to members with prior service (before Jan. 1,1945) and membership service (Jan. 1, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1977) under Part I formula and to prior service (before Jan. 1, 1974) and membership service (Jan. 1, 1974 to Jan. 1, 1977) under Part II of formula. Also applied to retiree who retired on or after June 1, 1977. Applicable to retirement on or after June 1,1977. Reduction factors for such retirements also were reduced.15 Applicable to retirement on or after June 1,1977. If employee elected to take early retirement before age 60, such option could be exercised provided employee made application within 90 days before 60th birthday. Added: Deceased retiree’s monthly pension check due the retiree for the month in which death occurred, to be paid to surviving spouse or designated beneficiary. Increased: Benefit allowance for existing required 3-year or 5-year waiting period to $9 per month for each year of service during waiting period prior to initial eligibility. Changed: Employee contributions deducted before June 1, 1970 from earnings of members of the plan who were in active service as of June 1,1977 to be returned without interest and without reduction in accrued benefits in 3 installments as follows: (1) 50 percent within 60 days of government approval of such return of contribution, (2) one-half of the remainder within 12 months of the first payment, and (3) remainder within 12 months of the second year. See footnotes at end of table. 25 Footnotes to Table 3 1 Date of agreement not available. 2 Benefit levels were determined by an employee’s computed earnings as'follows: Disability Life insurance Annual earnings $1,000 2,000 3,000 Under $1,500 ................................................ $1300 and under $ 2 , 5 0 0 , . , .................. $2,500 and over............................................. Monthly payment Number of months Weekly sickness and accident Weekly contributions $51.04 52.50 54.00 20 40 60 $10 15 20 $0.25 .50 .75 1 Weekly contributions ranged from $0.60 to $1.80 depending on earnings prior to retirement. * Earnings classes and.sickness and,accident benefits were changed as follows: Weekly sickness and accident benefits Annual earnings Weekly sickness and accident benefits Annual earnings $1,872 and $1,976 and $2,080 and $2,184 and $2388 and $2,392 and $2,496 and $2,500 and $2,600 and Under $1,040......................................................................... $10 $1,040 and under $1,144...................................................... 11 $1,144 and under $1,248...................................................... " 12 $1,248 and under $1,352...................................................... 13 $1352 and under $1,456...................................................... 14 $1,456 and under $1,560...................................................... 15 $1360 and under $1,664...................................................... 16 $1,664 and under $1,768...................................................... 17 $1,768 and under $1,872...................................................... 18 5 Earnings classes and benefits were extended as follows: under $1,976....................................................... under $2,080 ...................................................... under $2,184...................................................... under $2,288....................................................... under $2,392...................................................... under $2,496....................................................... under $2,500...................................................... under $2,600....................................................... o v e r .................................................................... $19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25 26 Weekly sickness and accident benefits Annual earnings $2,600 and under $2,704..................................................... $2,704 and under $2,808 ..................................................... $2,808 and o v e r................................................................... $26 27 28 • At their own expense, employees could provide this coverage for their dependents, and retirees could subscribe for themselves as their dependents. 7 Earnings classes and sickness and accident benefits were changed as follows: Weekly sickness and accident benefits Annual earnings Under $1,560......................................................................... $1,560 and under $1,820...................................................... $1,820 and under $2,080...................................................... $2,080 and under$2,340..................................................... $2,340 and under $2,600..................................................... Weekly sickness and accident benefits Annual earnings $2,600 and under $2,860............................................................ $2,860and under$3,120............................................................. $3,120 and under $3,380............................................................. $3,380 and under $3,640............................................................. $3,640 and under $3,900............................................................. $3,900 and over............................................................................ $15.00 17.50 20.00 22.50 25.00 $27.50 30.00 32.50 35.00 37.50 40.00 8 Face value of insurance was as follows: Years of senrice 10 11 12 13 14 and and and and and under under under under under 11 years 12 years 13 years 14 years 15 years Insurance $ 550 1,100 1,650 2,750 4,125 9 Benefits levels were determined by an employee’s earnings as follows: Accidental death and dismemberment Annual earnings Under $1,500 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 $4,000 $4,500 $5,000 $ 1 300........................................... and under $2,500....................... and under $3,000....................... and under $3,500....................... and under $4,000....................... and under $4,500....................... and under $5,000....................... and o v e r ..................................... Life insurance $1,000 2,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 10,000 Death $1,000 2,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 26 Disability Dismemberment Monthly payment Number of months $500-$ 1,000 1,000- 2,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 $51.04 52.50 90.00 90.00 90.00 90.00 90.00 180.00 20 40 60 60 60 60 60 60 Weekly sickness and accident $20 25 30 35 40 45 50 50 Footnotes to Table 3 —Continued ,0 The schedule of benefit levels was revised to reflect higher minimum benefits and earnings levels as follows: Accidental death and dismemberment Life insurance Annual earnings Less than $4,500 ................................... $4,500 but less than $5,000................. $5,000 but less than $5,500................. $5,500 but less than $6,000.................. $6,000- but less than $6,500 .............. $6,500 and o v e r..................................... $5,000 5000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 Death $3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 Disability Dismemberment Monthly payment Number of months $1,500-$3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 1,500- 3,000 $90 90 180 180 180 180 60 60 60 60 60 60 Earnings classes and benefits were extended as follows: Weekly sickness and accident benefits e ffe c tiv e - Annual earnings June 1,1971 $50 54 58 63 66 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 Less than $4,500 ................... $4,500 but less than $5,000.. $5,000 but less than $5,500.. $5,500 but less than $6,000.. $6,000 but less than $6,500.. $6,500 but less than $7,000.. $7,000 but less than $7,500.. $7,500 but less than $8,000.. $8,000 but less than $8,500.. $8,500 but less than $9,000.. $9,000 but less than $9,500.. $9,500 but less than $10,000. $10,000 but less than $10,500 $10,500 but less than $11,000 $11,000 but less than $11,500 $11,500 but less than $12,000 $12,000 and o v e r................... June 1, 1972 $50 54 58 63 66 70 74 78 82 86 90 94 98 102 106 110 114 ,2 Earnings classes and benefits were extended as follows: Weekly sickness and accident benefits effective— Annual earnings June 1, 1977 $12,000 $12,500 $13,000 $13,500 $14,000 $14,500 $15,000 $15,500 $16,000 $16,500 but less than $12,500............ but less than $13,000............ but less than $13,500............ but less than $14,000........... but less than $14,500............ but less than $15,000............ but less than $15 50 0............ but less than $16,000........... but less than $16,500............ and above............................... $114 118 122 126 130 134 138 142 — — * Schedule for earnings below amounts shown remained unchanged. u Life insurance benefits based on annual earnings: Annual earnings Less than $10,000..................................................................................... $10,000 but less than $11,500 ................................................................ $11,500 but less than $13,000 ................................................................ $13,000 or o v e r......................................................................................... Life insurance $10,000 11,000 12,000 13,000 27 June 1, 1978 $114 118 122 126 130 134 138 142 146 150 Weekly sickness and accident $50 54 58 63 66 70 Footnotes to Table 3 —Continued 14 Early .etirement annuity was to be computed as follows: Age Percent of normal pension allowable Percent allowable before June 1,1970 61.......................................................................... 60 .................................................................... 59 .......................................................................... 5 8 . . . .................................................................. 57 .......................................................................... 56 .................................................................... 55 .......................................................................... 92 84 76 68 60 55 50 70 65 60 56 52 48 45 15 Early retirement annuity was to be computed as follows: Age 61 ..................................................................... 60 ..................................................................... 59 .......................................................................... 58 .......................................................................... 57 ..................................................................... 56 ..................................................................... 55............. Percent allowable for those retired before June 1, 1977 Percent allowable for those retired on or after June 1, 1977 92 84 76 68 60 55 50 92 85 81 77 73 69 65 28 Wage Chronologies Available The following wage chronologies are available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, or from the regional offices of the Bureau of Labor Statistics listed on the inside back cover. Some publications are out of print and not available from the Superintendent of Documents but may be obtained, as long as supplies are available, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C. 20212, or from the Bureaus’ regional offices. Out-of-print items also may be available for reference in leading public, college, or university libr aries. Before July 1965, basic wage chronologies and their supplements were published in the Monthly Labor Review and released as Bureau reports. Wage chronologies published later are available only as bulletins (and their supplements). Summaries of general wage changes and new or changed working practices are added to bulletins as new contracts are negotiated. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Shipbuilding Department) and the IUMSW— June 1941—August 1975, BLS Bulletin 1866. 1975—78, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1866. Bituminous Coal Mine Operators and United Mine Workers of America— October 1933—November 1974, BLS Bulletin 1799. 1974—77, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1799. The Boeing Co. (Washington Plants) and the Interna tional Association of Machinists— June 1936—September 1977, BLS Bulletin 1895. 1977—80, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1895. Commonwealth Edison Co. and the Electrical Workers (IBEW)— October 1945—March 1974, BLS Bulletin 1808. 1974— 79, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1808. Dan River Inc. and the Textile Workers (UTWA)— 1943—76, BLS Bulletin 1934. FMC Corp., Chemical Group—Fiber Division and the TWUA— 1945—77, BLS Bulletin 1924. 1977—79, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1924. Federal Employees under the General Schedule Pay System— July 1924—October 1974, BLS Bulletin 1870. 1975— 77, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1870. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. and B.F. Goodrich Co. (Akron Plants) and the Rubber Workers— 1937—79, BLS Bulletin 2011. Ford Motor Co., and the Auto Workers— Volume I, June 1941—September 1973, BLS Bulletin 1787. Volume II, 1973—79, BLS Bulletin 1994. International Harvester Co. and the Auto Workers— February 1946—September 1976, BLS Bulletin 1887. 1976— 79, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1887. International Paper Co., Multiple Mill Group, and the Paperworkers and the Electrical Workers (IBEW)— 1 9 3 7 — 7 9 , BLS Bulletin 2023. International Shoe Co. (a division of Interco, Inc.)— 1945—74, BLS Bulletin 1718. October 1974—September 1976, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1718. Aluminum Company of America with United Steel workers of America and Aluminum Workers Inter national Union— November 1939—January 1974, BLS Bulletin 1815. February 1974—May 1977, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1815. The Anaconda Co. (Montana Mining Division) and the Steelworkers— 1941—77, BLS Bulletin 1953. 1977—80, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1953. Armour and Company— 1941—72, BLS Bulletin 1682. 1973—79, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1682. A.T.&T.—Long Lines Department and Communica tions Workers of America (AFL-CIO)— October 1940—July 1974, BLS Bulletin 1812. July 1974—August 1977, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1812. Atlantic Richfield and the Oil Workers (Former Sinclair Oil Facilities)— 1941—77, BLS Bulletin 1915. 1977—7 9 , Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1915. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and the Textile Workers— June 1943—April 1975, BLS Bulletin 1849. 1975—78, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1849. 29 L ockheed—C alifornia Company (a division of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.) and Machinists’ Union— March 1937—October 1977, BLS Bulletin 1904. 1977—80, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1904. Martin Marietta Aerospace and the Auto Workers— March 1944—November 1975, BLS Bulletin 1884. 1975—78, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1884. Massachusetts Shoe Manufacturers and the Shoe Workers— 1945—79, BLS Bulletin 1993. New York City Laundries and the Clothing Workers— November 1945—November 1975, BLS Bulletin 1845. 1975—78, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1845. North Atlantic Longshoremen— 1934—71, BLS Bulletin 1736. 1971— 77, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1736. Pacific Coast Shipbuilders and Various Unions— 1941—77, BLS Bulletin 1982. Pacific Gas and Electric Co.— 1943—72, BLS Bulletin 1761. 1972— 76, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1761. Pacific Maritime Association and the ILWU— 1934_78, BLS Bulletin 1960. Railroads—Nonoperating Employees— 1920—62, BLS Report 208.1 Rockwell International (Electronics, North American Aircraft/Space Operations) and the Auto Workers— May 1941—September 1977, BLS Bulletin 1893. United States Steel Corporation— March 1937—April 1974, BLS Bulletin 1814. May 1974—July 1977, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1814. Western Greyhound Lines— 1945—67, BLS Bulletin 1595.1 1968—77, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1595. Western Union Telegraph Co. and the Telegraph Workers and the Communications Workers— 1943—76, BLS Bulletin 1927. 1976—79, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1927. 1Out of print. 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