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Wage Chronology :
Rockwell International (Electronics,
North American Aircraft/Space
Operations) and the UAW,
May 1941-September 1977
U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
1976
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Wage Chronology:
Rockwell International (Electronics,
North American Aircraft/Space
Operations) and the UAW,
May 1941-September 1977
U.S. Department of Labor
W. J. Usery, Jr., Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Julius Shiskin, Commissioner
1976
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Preface
This bulletin is one of a series prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that traces changes in
wage scales and related benefits negotiated by individual employers or combinations of employers
with a union or group of unions. Benefits unilaterally introduced by an employer generally are
included. The information is obtained largely from collective bargaining agreements and related
documents voluntarily filed with the Bureau. Descriptions of the course of collective 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 determination.
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. For a detailed explanation of the purpose and scope of the chronology program, see “Wage
Chronologies and Salary Trend Reports,” BLS Handbook o f Methods, Bulletin 1711 (Bureau of
Labor Statistics, 1971), pp. 209-12.
This chronology summarizes changes in wage rates and supplementary compensation practices
since May 1941 negotiated by Rockwell International Corporation (Electronics, North American
Aircraft, and North American Space Operations) with the International Union, United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. This bulletin replaces Wage Chronol
ogy: North American Aviation, Inc., 1941-67, published as BLS Bulletin 1564, and incorporates the
supplement covering the 1967-70 period. Materials previously published have been supplemented in
this bulletin by contract changes negotiated for the 1971-77 period. Except for a revised
introduction and other minor changes, earlier texts generally are included as they were originally
published.
The Bureau has introduced new job titles to eliminate those that denote sex stereotypes. For
purposes of this bulletin, 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.
The analysis for the 1967-77 period was prepared in the Division of Trends in Employee
Compensation by John J. Lacombe II and William M. Davis.
Contents
Page
Introduction............................................................................................................................................1
Summary of contract negotiations........................................................................................................3
May 19^1-October 1950
3
October 1950-October 1953 .......................................................................................................... 3
October 1953-May 1958
3
May 1958July 1962 ...............................
4
July 1962-October 1965
4
October 1965-September 1968
6
October 1968-Qctober 1 9 7 1 ...........................................................................................................8
October 1971-September 1974
9
October 1974-September 1977
12
Tables:
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2a.
2b.
3.
General wage c h a n g e s .........................................................................................................13
Hourly rate ranges by labor grade, 1949-67 ................................................................ 25
Hourly rate ranges by labor grade, 1968-76 ................................................................ 33
Supplementary compensation practices
.........................................................................37
Shift premium p a y .................................................................................................... 37
Overtime p a y ...........................................................................
37
Premium pay for Saturday and S u n d a y .................................................................37
Holiday pay
............................................................................................................ 37
Paid vacations............................................................................................................ 38
Paid sick leave
...........................................................................................
39
Reporting time pay ................................................................................................ 40
Rest periods ............................................................................................................ 40
Flight pay ...................................................................................
40
Jury duty p a y ............................................................................................................ 40
Bereavement pay ...........................................................
41
Short-term military duty pay ................................................................................ 41
Insurance b e n e f it s .................................................................................................... 41
Disability benefit plan ............................................................................................ 51
Retirement p l a n .......................................................................
53
Extended layoff b e n e f i t s ........................................................................................ 58
Supplemental unemployment benefits plan .........................................................60
Layoff benefit and security (savings) program .................................................... 62
Wage chronologies available
................................................................................................................ 66
Introduction
The Electronics, North American Aircraft, and North
American Space Operations of Rockwell International
Corporation originated as North American Aviation
(NAA) which was incorporated in Delaware on Decem
ber 6, 1928. NAA began as a holding company, but the
subsequent acquisition of several large manufacturing
and operating units put it in the management field. The
company assumed the status of an operating company
when it divested itself of stock interest in several air
transport organizations following passage of the 1934 air
mail law. In 1935, NAA set up airframe manufacturing
operations in Los Angeles, California.
The company’s name was changed to the North
American Rockwell Corporation on September 22,
1967, when it merged with the Rockwell-Standard
Corporation and to its present title of Rockwell Inter
national Corporation on February 16, 1973, with the
merger of the Rockwell Manufacturing Company into
the organization.
The company is structured into major functional
categories with the Electronics, North American Air
craft, and North American Space Operations making up
42 percent and automotive about 28 percent of total
sales in the company’s fiscal year 1973. The remaining
operations are involved in utility and industrial products,
and consumer products.
The corporation currently employs more than
100.000 workers in the United States of which about
41.000 are under the Electronics, North American
Aircraft, and North American Space Operations. The
company also has a number of plants and facilities in
foreign countries including England, Brazil, Canada,
Italy, Germany, Australia, and Singapore.
Collective bargaining agreements for the Electronics,
North American Aircraft, and North American Space
Operations’ production and maintenance workers are
negotiated with the International Union, United Auto
mobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers
of America (UAW).1 The Union held its founding
convention, the 1st Constitutional Convention in late
b e fo re May 8, 1962, the union’s name was International
Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement
Workers of America.
1935, when it accepted a charter from the craft-oriented
American Federation of Labor (AFL), with the provi
sion that certain jurisdictional limitations be removed
at the next AFL convention. In July 1936, the union
joined the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO),
whose goals coincided with those of the UAW.2 The
union was suspended from the AFL shortly thereafter
because of this action3 and in May 1938 was expelled
along with other ClO-member unions. The UAW and the
other expelled unions then formed the Congress of
Industrial Organizations (CIO) in November 1938. The
AFL and CIO merged in December 1955 and the union’s
affiliation with the AFL-CIO continued until July 1,
1968, when the union became independent. The UAW
currently is the second largest union in the United States
and represents about 1.5 million production, skilled, and
office workers in the automobile, aerospace, tractor and
agricultural implement, and parts and metalworking
industries.
The NAA first recognized the UAW in March 1937
during a period of intense rivalry for jurisdiction over
the airframe industry between the UAW and the
International Association of Machinists (IAM)—the latter
being affiliated with the AFL. In 1938, the company
refused to renew its recognition of the UAW and the
case was taken to the National Labor Relations Board.
After several years of litigation, the UAW (CIO)4 was
granted exclusive bargaining rights for production and
maintenance workers at NAA. On July 18, 1941, the
union and the company signed the first collective
bargaining agreement for workers at the Los Angeles
facilities. Similar agreements also were reached for
facilities in Columbus, Ohio, and Fresno, California. In
1953, a national agreement was reached which covered
2The CIO was formed in November 1935 to organize workers
in mass production industries on an industrial basis and to
encourage their affiliation with the AFL.
3 After charging the CIO with “dual unionism” the AFL
suspended ClO-member unions in late 1936.
4 A rival UAW which affiliated with the AFL had also
contended for jurisdiction over production and maintenance*
workers at NAA but failed in the attempt. This rival union later
became known as the International Union, Allied Industrial
Workers of America (AFL-CIO) in the mid-1950’s.
Angeles and Palmdale areas, Edwards Air Force Base,
and Chatsworth, California, and also at Columbus, Ohio,
and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Strictly speaking, however, this
chronology covers only the Los Angeles-area facilities,
since only this area was covered by the agreement of
July 18, 1941, the earliest one reported in the chronol
ogy; some provisions at other locations have differed
from those at southern California plants. Separate
agreements with the UAW now cover about 140 employ
ees in McAlester, Oklahoma, and 200 in Princeton, West
Virginia. Agreements with other unions such as the
Teamsters, Carpenters and Joiners, Painters, Operating
Engineers, Electrical Workers (IBEW), and Police and
Firemen (Ind.), cover certain groups of employees in
various California facilities.
Southern California facilities of the former NAA, like
other airframe plants in the area, were subject to
standard job classification plans and uniform pay .scales
established by the National War Labor Board in March
1943. After the war, both the job evaluation system and
the labor-grade structure were revamped through negoti
ations. Currently, production and maintenance em
ployees are paid on an hourly basis according to a formal
labor-grade structure covering all job classifications.
Automatic wage progression is provided from the mini
mum to the maximum of the rate range.
This chronology describes the major contract changes
since the July 18, 1941, collective bargaining agreement.
Provisions of that first contract as reported in this
5
The Fresno operations subsequently were discontinued by chronology do not necessarily represent changes from
previous conditions of employment.
the end of 1957.
workers at the Los Angeles, Columbus, and Fresno5
facilities.
Despite the initial competition for jurisdiction, the
UAW and IAM have attempted to coordinate their
bargaining activities since 1953, when leaders of both
unions signed a pact to exchange information and to
communicate during negotiations. Not until 1959, how
ever, was the industry presented a single set of bargain
ing objectives—the result of the first UAW-IAM joint
conference. In 1965, the unions continued to coordinate
their bargaining strategy although each union established
its own goals. After a renewal of jurisdictional problems,
the alliance was severed in August 1968, only to be
reinstated with the signing of a new mutual assistance
agreement in 1971.
Currently, representatives of the UAW and IAM meet
jointly before industry negotiations to establish common
objectives and coordinate strategy. The objectives are
influenced to some extent by settlements in the auto
industry. Aerospace talks are conducted on a companyby-company basis by the unions. After agreement is
reached at a major company, similar terms generally
spread throughout the industry.
The master agreement for the Electronics, North
American Aircraft, and North American Space Opera
tions and UAW currently covers 11,150 workers, mainly
in production and maintenance activities, in the Los
Summary of contract negotiations
May 1941-October 1950
From the 1941 agreement through the 1949 agree
ment, increases were made in wage rates as a result of
each of 5 agreements for North American Aviation
(NAA) in southern California1 and the United Automo
bile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of
America (UAW) plus 2 directive orders of the National
War Labor Board (NWLB). Also during this period, paid
holidays, vacations, and sick leave were established and
various supplementary compensation practices were im
proved. The group insurance plan which had been in
effect was incorporated with improvements into the
agreement for the first time beginning in 1950.
The first of the NWLB directives established a
standard job classification plan and uniform pay scales in
the southern California airframe industry in 1943. After
the war, the job evaluation system and labor grade
structure were revised through negotiations.
October 1950-October 1953
A 3-year agreement for NAA in southern California
and the UAW was effective October 23, 1950. The
contract covered 12,000 workers and provided for
adoption of a cost-of-living escalator clause and a 9-cent
general wage increase plus additional increases for some
workers. Separate similar agreements also were reached
with the UAW for plants in Columbus, Ohio, and
Fresno, California, which covered 12,000 and 900
workers, respectively.
The pact was scheduled to remain in effect through
October 22, 1953, although a reopening was possible
after 18 months for negotiations on basic wage rates.
In April 1952, the pact was reopened at the request
of the union. After extended negotiations failed to result
in agreement, the union took a strike vote. Sub
sequently, by a Supplemental Agreement, the parties
agreed to submit their dispute to an arbitration panel to
be appointed by the President of the United States. This
agreement binding the parties to accept the arbitration
decision also provided that a portion of the cost-of-living
adjustment then in effect was to be included in the
company’s wage rate structure. Accordingly, the floor
below which rates could not be reduced by a downward
movement of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was raised
as a result of the new increases. The Supplemental
Agreement also established the effective date of any
increase.
The panel, on September 13, awarded a general wage
increase of 10 cents effective retroactively to April 28,
1952, which was approved by the Wage Stabilization
Board on September 10, 1952.2 In making the award,
the panel discussed wage and other relationships be
tween the automobile and airframe industries and stated
that a part of the general wage increase was intended “as
a step in narrowing the differential.” The amended
agreement covered about 16,000 workers.
The 1952 agreement was to remain in effect until
midnight October 22, 1953.
October 1953-May 1958
In July 1953, the UAW served notice on NAA that it
would terminate its collective bargaining agreements
with the company upon expiration, October 22, 1953,
and expressed a desire to negotiate new agreements.
Formal negotiations began September 1. When the
parties failed to agree by midnight, October 22, a strike
occurred at plants in Los Angeles, California, and
Columbus, Ohio, and a day later in Fresno, California.
Negotiations before the strike had resulted in a
company offer that included a 4-percent general wage
increase; an additional 4 cents an hour to employees in
the highest labor grade; an increase in the maximum
differential for leadmen; a revised cost-of-living escalator
formula; upgrading of a number of job classifications;
and liberalized holiday, vacation, and health and welfare
2
The parties’ Supplemental Agreements and Submission to
1
Plants in Columbus, Ohio, and Fresno, California, had other
Arbitration Agreement instructed the panel to secure authoriza
locals of the same union. Separate agreements were signed by
tion from the WSB before releasing its award. This authorization
these locals and the company, which were almost identical with
was requested on September 3.
the southern California agreements.
benefits. The terms of this offer were put into effect by
the company on October 26 for all employees at work.
On December 13, 1953, the stoppage was settled
substantially on the terms just outlined. This settlement,
approved by the union membership on December 15,
was embodied in a 1-year national contract that ex
tended to plants in Columbus and Fresno, as well as to
the Los Angeles facilities.3 Some additional jobs were
upgraded.
A year later (December 14, 1954), a 15-month
contract was agreed to, providing for a 2.5-percent
general wage increase after incorporation of the existing
3-cent cost-of-living allowance into basic wage rates. It
also established a noncontributory pension plan:, effec
tive April 1, 1955, with the provision that there should
be no further negotiations on the plan for 5 years.
In mid-March 1956, a settlement was reached calling
for immediate general wage raises ranging from 7 to 15
cents an hour and an additional wage advance a year
later of 3 percent, but not less than 6 cents an hour. In
addition, the contract revised the cost-of-living escalator
formula; increased the premium for second-shift work;
liberalized vacation benefits for certain employees;
improved the insurance plan; and established jury-duty
pay. A joint committee was established to “discuss,
investigate, and agree upon a new or modified wage
plan,” subject to instructions and prohibitions contained
in the agreement. The 2-year agreement, which was to be
in force through March 5, 1958, without any reopening,
covered approximately 33,000 workers—about 21,200 in
Los Angeles, 9,600 in Columbus, and 2,200 in Fresno.
May 1958July 1962
A 2-year agreement was concluded by NAA and the
UAW on May 11, 1958, after about 3Vl months of
negotiations; it was ratified by the union membership on
May 18 and became effective the following day. Formal
negotiations, begun on February 3, continued beyond
the expiration date of the previous agreement, March 5,
1958, until settlement was reached. A strike had been
authorized by the union membership on March 31 but
did not take place. The new agreement extended to May
18, 1960.
The 1958 contract provided for hourly wage increases
of 2 to 11 cents effective in May 1958 and 3 percent
(with a minimum of 7 cents) a year later. It incorporated
the existing cost-of-living allowance into the basic rate,
continued the escalator provision, and upgraded a
number of job classifications. It also added a 7th paid
holiday and improved insurance benefits for dependents.
Finally, it continued a joint wage committee to “discuss,
investigate, and agree upon a new or modified wage
plan,” subject to instructions and prohibitions which
had been established under the previous agreement.
In March 1960, the union notified the company of its
desire to modify the existing contract. Formal negotia
tions for the 1960 basic agreement began on April 5 and
continued without interruption through the May 18
expiration date of the 1958 contract. Accord was
reached on June 3, 1960, on a 2-year agreement, which
the union membership ratified June 5. It increased basic
wage rates 7 cents an hour, effective May 28, 1961, and
instituted a company-paid extended layoff benefit plan
which provided a lump-sum payment based on years of
service for layoffs of 4 weeks or more. The layoff
benefit plan established a pattern for an important
segment of the aircraft industry.
In addition, the settlement incorporated 5 cents of
the existing 6-cent cost-of-living allowance into basic
rates and provided a revised cost-of-living escalator
clause, which omitted the 1-cent increase that would
have been due in July under the old clause; upgraded
several jobs and shortened the automatic wage progres
sion period for a number of job classifications. The
agreement also added time and one-half for work on
shifts starting on Saturday; improved holiday pay,
vacation, and sick leave provisions and the group
insurance plan; and increased pension benefits. Later in
the year, the parties negotiated a health and welfare plan
for retired employees and their dependents.
The contract was to remain in effect through June 3,
1962, with the extended layoff benefits provisions to
run to June 5, 1964; the pension plan was to continue
without change until September 30, 1965.
July 1962-October 1965
At a joint 2-day conference in February 1962, the
UAW and the International Association of Machinists
(IAM) began preparations for negotiations scheduled for
the spring with North American Aviation, Inc., and
other West Coast aerospace companies. The conference
adopted a series of bargaining objectives, which reflected
the unions’ general position on wages, health insurance,
and employment and union security.
A 5-point general wage policy statement and one on
special wage problems concentrated on means of raising
the economic status of aerospace workers and protecting
3
Formerly, separate agreements were signed for the Colum
them against loss of employment or earnings. The
bus and Fresno plants, but the terms were almost identical with
general wage policy called for annual improvement
the southern California agreement.
factor increases equivalent to the actual increase in
productivity, quarterly escalator adjustments that “fully
reflect any rise in the cost of living,” compensation for
time spent in acquiring skills required by changing
technology, and inter- and intra-plant and inter- and
intra-industry inequity adjustments.
A special wage policy statement dealt with automa
tion and missile site premiums. Negotiators were di
rected to give attention to overlapping job descriptions
and labor grade inequities, to protect employees re
assigned as a result of technological changes against wage
loss, to guarantee them the prevailing rates during
retraining, to insure appropriate rates of pay for em
ployees assigned new responsibilities because of techno
logical change, and to oppose the practice of tying job
descriptions to formal job-evaluation plans. The special
statement also recommended that “drastic action be
taken against the company(s) involved should any
governmental agency disallow any benefits negotiated
between the union(s) and company(s).”
The protection provided by existing aerospace health
insurance plans had been a matter of serious concern to
the unions in previous negotiations. Although plans had
been approved since their inception4, wide areas of
dissatisfaction were summarized in a comprehensive
13-point policy statement. Major changes sought were
the assumption of the full cost of the plan by the
employer, surgical care on a service basis, extension of
maternity and obstetrical services to dependents, in
creased sickness and accident benefits to two-thirds of
weekly earnings for 26 weeks, and increased retirees’
benefits to employee benefit levels with the employer
assuming at least half of the cost.5
The decline in production workers in the industry
and wide fluctuations in the levels of employment at
individual companies prompted a strong resolution on
employment security. The resolution instructed negotia
tors to insist on programs comparable to the supple
mental unemployment and separation benefits programs
of other industries. Since much of the responsibility for
employee insecurity was attributed to Government
procurement policies, the Federal Government was
urged to convene the industry’s labor and management
4 At North American Aviation, the insurance plan was
instituted prior to 1941.
5 In addition, the unions recommended that the plans be
improved by providing for the full cost of semiprivate rooms for
a full year, full payment of therapeutic services in a hospital,
employees’ right to choose more comprehensive service plans
where available, equal benefits for dependents, supplementary
coverage of dependents by major medical plans, life insurance
equal to 1 year’s earnings, health insurance coverage for at least
6 months during disability and 1 year during layoff, and revision
of administration practices.
representatives to develop an economic security pro
gram.
The unions also developed a comprehensive resolu
tion on union security.
Negotiations between NAA and the UAW began April
24 to replace the agreement scheduled to expire June 3,
1962. Union demands were generally similar to the joint
bargaining objectives. In response to a demand for a
supplemental unemployment benefits (SUB) program,
the company indicated that the extended layoff benefits
plan was not subject to renegotiation since it was
scheduled to remain in effect until June 5, 1964.
Following 5 weeks of negotiations, the parties on
June 1 extended the existing contract to June 13, with a
10-day notice of intention to terminate required after
expiration of the initial extension.
On June 12, the company submitted its first pro
posal. It offered, in a 2-year contract, wage increases of
5 to 8 cents an hour effective immediately and 6 to 8
cents an hour at the end of the first contract year;
incorporation of the existing 6-cent cost-of-living allow
ance into base rates; elimination of certain jobclassification inequities; an 8th paid holiday; and sub
stantial improvements in the group insurance program.
The offer was rejected by the union.
Neither side exercised its option to terminate the
agreement during June. However, on July 1, the union
members voted to strike, if necessary, on July 23.
On July 12, the company proposed a 30-day contract
extension, with terms of any settlement to be retroactive
to July 9. The union rejected the proposal on the
grounds that there was sufficient time to negotiate a
settlement before its strike deadline. The following day,
the union officially notified the company of its inten
tion to terminate the contract on July 23. Other
aerospace companies whose contracts had expired re
ceived similar notices on the same day.
On July 20, the company proposed a 3-year contract
which it said was equal to the estimated 25-cent hourly
cost of the IAM and UAW agreements of July 16 with
Douglas Aircraft Co.6
The offer proposed raising wage rates by 5 to 8 cents
an hour the first year and 6 to 8 cents the second, and 6
to 9 cents the third, as in the Douglas contracts. It
would have continued the cost-of-living escalator clause
and the existing 6-cent cost-of-living allowance plus a
1-cent increase that would have been due July 29 under
the old contract. The company also offered an additional
4 cents an hour to be applied in a mutually agreeable
manner and suggested that this amount be used in part
6
For details of the Douglas-IAM-UAW agreements, see
Monthly Labor Review, September 1962, p. 1034.
to reduce by 3 to 8 cents an hour the wage-rate
differential at the company’s Neosho, Mo., division.
Finally, it would have added an 8th paid holiday and
increased insurance benefits at reduced employee pre
miums. Union negotiators rejected the offer because it
did not provide for a union shop or a SUB plan.
To avoid work stoppages at this and other vital
missile and aerospace companies, the President, on July
21, requested the unions and the involved companies to
delay a stoppage for 60 days and appointed a threemember board to aid the Federal Mediation and Concili
ation Service in bringing about settlements. The Board
was authorized to conduct hearings and was ordered to
report its findings and recommendations to the President
within 60 days. On July 23, the workers at North
American Aviation voted to accede to the President’s
request.
On September 1, after further negotiations at NAA
and other aerospace companies failed to produce a
settlement, the Board recommended to the President
that (1) contracts run for 3 years; (2) general wage
increases conform to the Douglas Aircraft Co. settle
ment, but with the first year’s increase retroactive to
July 23; (3) beginning July 23, 1962, 2 cents an hour be
contributed to a fund to improve extended layoff
benefits when existing plans expired in June 1964; (4)
other economic issues be negotiated in the light of the
Board’s discussion; and (5) the union shop issue be
decided by a vote of employees in each bargaining unit,
with a two-thirds voting majority required to adopt the
union shop. The union agreed to negotiate on the basis
of the recommendations. The company first rejected the
proposals because of the union shop recommendation,
but subsequently agreed to accept them as a basis for
negotiations.
NAA became the first West Coast aerospace company
to come to terms following the Board’s report by
reaching general agreement with the UAW on September
19; formal agreement was announced on September 24.
The 3-year contract was similar to, though not identical
with, others in the aerospace industry. Under the
agreement, ratified on September 30, wage rates were
increased 5 to 8 cents an hour retroactive to July 22; 6
to 8 cents in 1963; and 6 to 9 cents in 1964. Revisions
were made in a number of job classifications, rate ranges
of some grades were adjusted, and the time required to
move from the minimum to the maximum of a rate
range was reduced. The cost-of-living escalator clause
was continued (with the 7-cent allowance incorporated
into base rates), and some job inequity adjustments were
made. The agreement added an 8th paid holiday and
improved health insurance. The extended layoff benefits
plan was improved effective immediately in lieu of the
Board’s proposal for company contributions of 2 cents
an hour to a SUB fund. In an election on October 19,
the union shop did not receive the two-thirds majority
required for adoption.
October 1965-September 1968
Negotiations in 1965 between NAA and the UAW
were preceded in 1963 by the Third Joint Aerospace
Conference of the two major aerospace unions—the
UAW and the IAM. The major action of the conference
was to adopt a resolution urging the establishment of a
presidential commission, composed of labor, manage
ment, and government representatives, to make recom
mendations for updating the system used since 1943 to
determine wage classifications of workers. The two
unions contended that the system was antiquated and a
source of conflict and confusion. The company replied
that the collective bargaining agreement provided for a
review of the wage classification system, and therefore
opposed the proposal. The commission was not estab
lished.
Although aerospace industry bargaining goals had
been drafted jointly with the IAM since 1959, separate
union programs were adopted in 1965. Nevertheless, the
two unions coordinated their bargaining efforts. On June
22, 1965, 130 UAW and IAM local union representatives
met in Washington, D. C., to discuss bargaining strategy.
Later in June, the presidents of the two unions
announced similar bargaining goals.
UAW’s aerospace industry bargaining goals for 1965
had been established at a union conference held on
February 25-26. Economic security made up a major
portion of the bargaining package. On wages, the
conference recommended that (1) workers share in the
benefits of productivity increases from technological and
economic progress, (2) the cost-of-living formula be
updated and restored where it had been modified, (3)
wage parity with other basic industries be established,
and (4) workers receive full pay for time spent acquiring
necessary new skills. Recommendations pertaining to
wage administration and related problems were included
also. These dealt with wage classification problems that
had been raised at the 1963 UAW-IAM conference, and
with wage-related problems brought on by the increasing
use of “numerically controlled tools.”
Fringe benefits were discussed largely in terms of
other industries. Nine paid holidays recently negotiated
in the auto industry were compared with the 7 or 8 then
existing in the aerospace industry. Bereavement pay,
which was not available to aerospace workers, was
indicated as standard in industries such as auto, rubber,
and electrical machinery. Tuition refund practices in the
auto industry were also cited. All other fringe benefits
were left to local negotiation.
Ten recommendations were made regarding pension
plans, including: Increasing benefits to a minimum of
$4.25 a month for each year of service; removing the
ceiling on credited years’ service; increasing normal
benefits for employees already retired by at least $ 1.45 a
month for each year of credited service; reducing normal
retirement to age 62, and early retirement to 55 with 10
years of credited service; removing age requirements
from vesting and disability provisions; providing an
automatic survivor’s option; including all compensated
hours in credited service; and giving the union full access
to all operating information.
Many recommendations were also made regarding
insurance. Among these were the addition of transition
and bridge survivor life insurance; increased sickness and
accident benefits; full company payment of life, sickness
and accident, hospital, medical and surgical insurance;
and improved coverage for retirees, dependents, em
ployees on disability leave, and those who had been
terminated.
Noneconomic problems were treated in considerable
detail. The union considered establishment of a union
shop as one of the significant issues for negotiation.
Other recommendations were made in union security,
seniority, and retirement and job security.
UAW contract negotiations with NAA began in
mid-August 1965, and were influenced by the agree
ments already reached with Douglas, Lockheed, and
Boeing. The local union used the 3-year, 24-cent pay
raise agreed to in these other contracts as a standard. It
also called for improved insurance benefits, increased
pension benefits for active and retired employees with
vesting after 10 years, longer vacations, more paid
holidays, 3 days’ bereavement pay, improved benefits
for the extended layoff benefits plan, improved griev
ance procedures, and revised seniority provisions.
Previous demands for a union shop were modified to
an agency shop, in which employees who chose not to
join the union would pay a fee equivalent to union dues.
The union continued to demand a revised system of
wage classification.
The company made its initial offer on October 5,
1965. Wage proposals included increases of 8 cents an
hour in each year of a 3-year basic contract and a revised
escalation formula. Other points in the company’s
economic package included 1 additional paid holiday,
increased vacations for long-service employees, and 3
days’ bereavement pay in the event of death in the
employee’s immediate family.
Comprehensive improvements in the group health
insurance plan, including increased coverage for retirees,
also were proposed. In addition, the company offered to
pay the full cost of hospital, medical, and surgical
insurance, for up to 12 months, for laid-off employees
who were eligible for extended layoff benefits. A revised
5-year pension plan would have raised benefits for future
retirees and for those already retired.
Negotiations continued, and on September 30 the
union served the 10-day notice of intention to terminate
required by contract. On the 10th day, Sunday, October
10, union members ratified the agreement recommended
by their negotiators. The contract, which was to run 3
years, generally followed the pattern of settlement at
Douglas, Lockheed, and Boeing.
The contract provided general increases in wages
totaling 25 cents an hour—an immediate 8 cents an hour,
and deferred increases of 9 cents in 1966 and 8 cents in
1967. The existing 11-cent-an-hour cost-of-living allow
ance was incorporated into basic wage rates and the
escalator clause was continued. In addition, 45 job
classifications were upgraded.
Fringe benefit improvements, most of them to be
effective in 1965, were estimated publicly to about
equal the 25-cent general wage increase. They included
an additional paid holiday, lengthened paid vacations, 3
days’ bereavement pay, and a number of changes in
insurance and retirement benefits.
The additional paid holiday brought the total to 9.
Paid vacation improvements reduced the requirement for
3 weeks’ vacation from 12 to 10 years’ uninterrupted
service, and granted 4 weeks’ vacation after 20 years.
Insurance benefits included survivor income insur
ance, with provisions similar to those in the auto
industry. It provided eligible survivors with “transition
benefits” of $100 a month for a maximum of 2 years. A
spouse over age 50 at the time of the employee’s death
was to receive, beginning after termination of transition
benefits and after age 52, “bridge benefits” of $100 a
month until attainment of age 62, remarriage, or for
other specified reasons.
Life insurance benefits were raised from $5,000 to
$7,500 as were accidental death and dismemberment
benefits. Maximum insurance coverage for doctor’s
expense was increased and hospital room and board
expense was extended from 120 to 365 days. Hospital,
medical, and surgical benefits for retirees were made
equal to those of active employees. The company also
agreed to finance for up to 12 months hospital, surgical,
and medical insurance for laid-off employees, who were
eligible for extended layoff benefits.
Retirement benefits for active employees were raised
to $4.75 a month for each year of credited service, and
by $1.45 for those already retired. Early retirement with
full benefits was provided at age 62, and disability
retirement benefits were improved. Vesting of retire
ment benefits was provided for workers with 10 years of
service or more regardless of age; previously, they had to
be 45 years of age or more.
A surviving spouse option provided the widow or
dependent widower of a retired employee, who elected
to receive reduced benefits, with payments equal to 55
percent of the reduced benefit. Also added was an
automatic surviving spouse benefit which provided the
widow or dependent widower of an active employee,
who was eligible to receive a pension at the time of
death, with payments equal to 55 percent of the pension
benefit that the employee would have received if he had
retired and elected the reduced benefits.
The union shop, which had existed in modified form
at NAA from 1950 to 1953, was reintroduced. Under
this compromise, new employees were required to join
the union and current members were required to retain
their memberships, but current nonmembers were not
required to join.
The contract, which covered about 33,000 workers,
was to terminate on September 30, 1968.
October 1968-October 1971
The Fifth Joint Aerospace Conference of the two
major aerospace unions, the UAW and the IAM, was held
in February 1968 to discuss bargaining objectives for the
upcoming negotiations in the industry. The 1-day joint
session was preceded by separate meetings of each
union.
Delegates to the convention unanimously approved a
set of general goals, covering 18 broad areas of contract
provisions. Included were substantial general wage in
creases, with additional increases to skilled workers;
extra pay for hazardous duty and liberalized field service
allowances; an improved cost-of-living escalator clause;
improvements in pensions and in the hospitalsurgical-medical plan, including full payment for a
semiprivate hospital room and additional hospital
charges, for up to 365 days; improved benefits for
survivors of both active and retired workers; greater
income security including substitution of a Supple
mental Unemployment Benefit Plan for the Extended
Layoff Benefit Plan; an extended disability benefits
plan; additional paid holidays; longer vacations and a
vacation bonus; improvements in shift differentials, and
in bereavement, jury-duty, and military pay; the addi
tion of a tuition refund program; retention of wage rates
for downgraded employees; and a full union shop in all
plants.
Negotiations at North American Rockwell Corp. were
opened on August 19, 1968; its contract with the IJAW
was to expire September 30. Pattern-setting agreements
in the industry had been reached earlier at McDonnell
Douglas Corp. (where both the UAW and the IAM held
contracts) and at Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (where only
the IAM represented workers). UAW officials vowed to
obtain wage and fringe benefit improvements at North
American equivalent to the pattern settlements at
McDonnell Douglas.
The union's initial demands were generally within the
framework of the McDonnell Douglas contract. A key
contract demand at North American was for the
establishment of a SUB plan which would provide
employees with 75 percent of their gross pay for each
full week on layoff. A SUB plan had been instituted at
McDonnell Douglas in 1965 and liberalized in 1968. In
addition to the SUB improvements, the McDonnell
Douglas settlement in 1968 included general wage
increases of 6 percent in 1968 and 3 percent in 1969 and
1970; additional adjustments to certain skilled and
technical workers ranged from 3 to 20 cents an hour in
addition to an inequity fund, effective the first year. A
revised cost-of-living escalator clause provided for two
annual reviews (the first in 1969) instead of quarterly;
minimum and maximum adjustments were specified for
each review. Other changes included: A 6-cent increase
in second and third shift differentials; an additional paid
holiday and less stringent holiday eligibility require
ments; an increase in basic pensions to $5.75 a month
for each year of credited service, effective December 1,
1968, increasing to $6.25 effective December 1, 1970,
with liberalized eligibility requirements, increased sup
plemental benefits, improved survivor benefits and
higher benefits for presently retired workers; improve
ments in hospital-surgical-medical insurance, including
full payment for a semiprivate hospital room for the first
10 days of confinement and $39 a day for the next 355
days; the institution of a dental plan and a prescription
drug program to become effective in 1970; an estab
lished psychiatric treatment program; company-paid
dependent health coverage (including surviving spouse);
improvements in vacations, military service pay, and life,
disability, sickness and accident, and transition and
bridge benefit insurance; establishment of an extended
disability benefit program; and a liberalized savings plan.
On August 30, the UAW and IAM announced the
dissolution of their mutual assistance agreement. The
alliance was maintained through pace-setting negotia
tions at McDonnell Douglas where both unions had
contracts. But a rivalry developed between the unions,
reportedly over raiding attempts and other issues, and
when the dispute could not be resolved, the alliance was
severed.
Cancellation of the mutual assistance agreement did
not directly affect negotiations at North American
Rockwell. Of the two unions, only the UAW held
contracts there.
After nearly 2 months of negotiations, the UAW and
North American agreed on October 4, 1968, to a 3-year
contract, effective October 6, 1968, similar in many
respects to the settlement at McDonnell Douglas. Ap
proximately 30,000 workers in the Aerospace and
Systems Group in various locations were covered by the
agreement, which was ratified on October 6.
The agreement provided wage increases ranging from
12 to 33 cents an hour, plus certain wage inequity
adjustments, effective in 1968, and additional wage
increases of 9 to 14 cents an hour, effective October 5,
1969, and 10 to 19 cents an hour, including special
increases to higher labor grades, effective October 4,
1970. The cost-of-living escalator clause was revised to
provide two annual reviews beginning in 1969, instead of
quarterly, with minimum and maximum adjustments for
each. In a separate company letter, dated October 11,
1968, the parties also agreed that, to the extent that
total cost-of-living adjustments during the term of the
1968 agreement were less than the allowance that would
have been provided if adjustments had been 1 cent for
each 0.4-point increase in the average CPI for March,
April, and May 1968 compared with the average for the
same months of 1971, the difference in cents per hour
was to be available on October 1, 1971, for wages and/or
other benefits as may be agreed upon by the parties in
the agreement next succeeding the 1968 agreement. (A
similar provision was negotiated previously in the
McDonnell Douglas contract.) Shift differentials were
increased 6 cents on each shift; a tenth paid holiday was
to provide employees with a 5-day weekend around
Christmas each year; and improvements were made in
vacation, military, and bereavement pay provisions. The
agreement replaced the previous maintenance of mem
bership clause with a full union shop clause, the only
one in the major West Coast aerospace companies.
Substantial improvements were made in health insur
ance benefits. Contributory supplemental life insurance
for employees was increased to from $5,000 to $20,000,
depending on basic hourly rate; transition and bridge
survivor income benefits were liberalized to $150 a
month; hospital room and board was increased to full
payment of a reasonable charge (not more than semi
private room rate) for up to 365 days for workers and
their dependents, and full payment for hospital nursery
care of a newborn child was added; for the first time,
provision was made for full payment of reasonable
charges (with certain limitations) for mental health
services and for convalescent and night care facility
benefits; surgical and medical (including major medical)
benefits were increased; a noncontributory family dental
plan was established, to be effective June 1, 1970; and
accident and sickness benefits under the voluntary
unemployment compensation disability plan were in
creased to range from $65 to $120 a week, for up to 52
weeks, on November 1, 1968.
Effective November 1, 1968, retirement improve
ments increased the normal, early, or disability retire
ment rate to $5.75 a month for each year of credited
service (to a maximum of 35 years). On January 1,
1971, benefits were further increased by adding to the
$5.75 monthly rate calculation, one and one-half per
cent of the excess of employee’s average monthly pay
rate over $566.67 times his years of credited service
accrued after December 31, 1970 ( minimum of 1 and
maximum of 35 years).
The Extended Layoff Benefits Plan was to be
replaced by a SUB plan on October 1, 1970. The plan
was to be financed by company payments of 3 cents per
man-hour compensated (excluding vacation and sick
leave hours). Regular or short workweek benefits were
computed at 65 percent of the base hourly rate,
including cost-of-living allowance, times the difference
between 40 hours and compensated or available hours
(maximum weekly SUB benefit—$55).
In February 1970, Extended Layoff Benefit pay
ments under the master agreement were terminated due
to current and prospective benefit claims over maximum
company liability to make payments. Completed aero
space programs, a reduced military budget, and a lower
work backlog had resulted in large reductions in the
work force. The parties agreed to apply the estimated
company liability which would have remained if the
Extended Layoff Benefits Plan had continued to pay the
group insurance premiums of those currently or prospec
tively laid off, rather than pay token amounts of
Extended Layoff Benefits to those subsequently laid off.
Payments had averaged $600 per employee and totaled
$10.2 million ($5 million in the last 6 months) since its
inception on July 1, 1960.
The master and supplementary contracts, covering
approximately 30,000 workers, were scheduled to termi
nate on September 30, 1971; no provision was made for
reopening.
October 1971-September 1974
On December 5, 1971, North American Rockwell and
the UAW reached a 34-month agreement covering about
16,000 aerospace workers in California, Ohio, and
Oklahoma. The pact was similar to those reached earlier
in the auto industry and was a breakthrough in
bargaining for 250,000 workers in the aerospace in
dustry. Several days later, workers ratified the agreement
which was subject to Pay Board approval.
The UAW had begun preliminary negotiations in July
1971 with two West Coast based aerospace companies
on noneconomic matters; formal “big table” talks were
scheduled for mid-August. The objective at these com
panies was to achieve a pattern-setting settlement that
would equal or surpass those reached earlier in the auto
industry.7 On August 15, the Phase I wage-price-rent
freeze was announced as part of the Federal Govern
ment’s economic stabilization program. As a result, talks
were stalled because of uncertainty among negotiators
about the effect of the freeze on any settlement they
might reach-the old contract was scheduled to expire
on September 30 which was within the 90-day freeze
period. Talks remained on dead center until late Novem
ber when intensive bargaining began at North American
Rockwell.
The December 5 agreement provided for an initial
increase of 34 cents an hour in base rates, retroactive to
October 3, 1971, and additional wage increases ranging
from 14 to 20 cents an hour effective December 5,
1971. The 34 cents was the “overage” or additional
amount that would have been paid under the escalator
clause during the term of the 1968 agreement had there
been no ceiling on cost-of-living adjustments.8 Two
deferred wage increases of 3 percent were to be effective
in October 1972 and September 1973. The accumulated
cost-of-living allowance of 16 cents an hour was incorpo
rated into base rates on December 5, 1971. The escalator
clause was revised to provide “no-ceiling” adjustments
beginning July 23, 1972 with the adjustment based on
the 3-month average of the BLS-CPI’s for March, April,
and May 1972 over the average of the indexes for the
same months in 1971, and then quarterly beginning
October 22, 1972, based on increases in 3-month
averages of the BLS-CPI’s.
A Christmas-New Year’s shutdown holiday period
was established which resulted in an increase to 11 paid
holidays in the first 2 years of the contract and to 12
paid holidays in the third year.
Improvements in the health plan for employees and
their dependents included payment for hemodialysis
service; elimination of the reduction in the hospital
benefit period because of nursing home care; full
payment for psychological testing and an increased
yearly maximum for same; increased maximums for
7 See Wage Chronology: Ford Motor Co., 1941-73, Bulletin
1787 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1973) for terms of the Ford
settlement, which set the pattern for the auto industry.
8 See terms of the “overage” letter dated Oct. 11, 1968,
under the Sept. 30,1968 listing in table 1 of this bulletin.
diagnostic X-ray and laboratory examinations; increased
major medical maximums to $15,000 lifetime and
$7,500 yearly; and, in 1973, increased payments for
dental care and elimination of the dental deductible. For
retirees and their dependents, the major medical maxi
mum was increased to $10,000; the deductible for
expenses was reduced from $50 to $25; and insurance
benefits were coordinated with other benefits payable
under insurance plans with other employers. Transition
and bridge survivor’s benefits were increased to $175
monthly, with the latter liberalized to allow the benefit
to a surviving spouse at age 48 (was 50) at the time of
employee’s death. Also, three brackets of benefits were
added to the sickness and accident schedule, resulting in
a maximum weekly benefit of $135.
The basic monthly pension rate, used in computing
normal, early, disability, and vested pensions, was
increased to $8 for each year of service up to 35 for
those retiring on or after January 1, 1972. Pensions no
longer were computed on the basis of a dollar amount
per year of service plus a wage-related add-on for years
of service after 1970. Annuities for past retirees were
increased by $1 per year of service less any appropriate
adjustments (survivors pensions were increased propor
tionately). A “ Level Income Special Allowance” (LISA)
was established to enable longer service employees (20
years or more) to retire at age 60 with higher benefits
through means of a supplemental allowance of $170 a
month payable to age 62, in addition to the basic
benefit. The reduction factor for the basic benefit for
such retirees was 1/3 of 1 percent per month (4 percent
yearly) under age 62 at retirement (this reduction factor
was less than those generally applicable to early retire
ment). Pensions for retirees who made the survivor’s
election were increased to 95 percent (from 90 percent)
of the basic pension rate where the age difference
between husband and wife was less than 5 years
(previous adjustments for greater age differences were
continued). In addition, full pensions could be restored
to those who made the survivor election if the desig
nated spouse had died or the couple divorced. The latter
was not applicable to those who made the election
before October 1, 1972. Also, any employee on the
active payroll as of January 1, 1972, was allowed to
“hook-up” as of that date any lost pension service credit
resulting from a break in service or termination. A
seniority employee who returned to the active payroll
from leave or layoff after January 1, 1972, and a former
employee who was reemployed and acquired seniority
after January 1, 1972, were entitled to a similar
“hook-up” of service.
The pact was scheduled to remain in effect until
September 30, 1974.
After the workers ratified the pact, the union quickly
sought approval of the package by the Pay Board set up
under Phase II of the Federal economic stabilization
program.
On December 21, 1971, the parties appeared before
the Pay Board to argue that the first-year wage hikes had
not exceeded the Board’s 5.5-percent guidelines. The
union asserted that only the 14- to 20-cent increase
should be considered as the first-year wage increase since
the 34 cents was a catch-up amount under the 1968
agreement “overage” letter and that the pact was in
“tandem” with contracts reached earlier in the auto
industry. Settlements deemed to follow either an interor intra-industry pattern historically (“tandem” or “meto” agreements) were allowable under Pay Board guide
lines. The Board deferred its ruling until it could hear
arguments on similar aerospace pacts which had been
reached shortly after settlement at North American
Rockwell Corp.9 These agreements were between the
UAW and the McDonnell Douglas Corp., and between
the International Association of Machinists (IAM) and
the McDonnell Douglas Corp., The Boeing Co., Lock
heed Aircraft Corp., LTV Aerospace Co., and United
Aircraft Corp. The contracts also incorporated 34- or
35-cent catch-up increases (varying by company), al
though previous IAM pacts did not contain specific
cost-of-living catch-up letters as did UAW pacts.
On January 5, 1972, the Pay Board deemed the
first-year wage increases excessive and rejected the
contracts.10 On January 13, the Board allowed catch-up
amounts in the first year if the parties deferred the
remaining first-year hikes (14 to 20 cents at North
American Rockwell) to the second year.
In the first legal challenge to a Pay Board ruling, the
UAW filed suit in Federal district court on February 7,
1972. It stressed its December 14 North American
R ockw ell arguments and
others to have the ruling
overturned. The IAM later filed a similar suit.
On July 31, the court ruled against the Board’s
decision and instructed it to disregard the catch-up
amounts in computing the value of the first-year
increases.
The Board then appealed the case to the Temporary
Emergency Court of Appeals, which had been set up to
hear such cases on October 2, 1972, on the grounds that
the 1968 agreements lacked specific language to set up
’ Because of the upcoming holiday period, however, the
Board approved a portion of the pact providing for the holiday
shutdown.
10The Board also ruled in favor of a pact between the IAM
and the United Aircraft Corp., which provided for an 8-percent
first-year increase without a cost-of-living catch-up increase.
back payments and that catch-up letters were executed
after and without the formality of the 1968 contracts.
On June 21, 1973, the Temporary Emergency Court
of Appeals upheld the lower court ruling and remanded
the pay issue back to the Cost of Living Council (succes
sor to the Pay Board) for reconsideration. To assist in its
decision, the Council appointed a 3-member Aerospace
Special Panel to make recommendations after hearing
arguments from all of the parties involved in the
retroactive pay issue. At the onset of hearings held
October 30-31, the Panel announced that workers would
receive no lump-sum payment of the amount due them
and that the Cost of Living Council would determine the
formula by which any payments would be made.
The Council ruled on December 12 that workers at
the five aerospace companies were entitled to restoration
of the pay cut by the Pay Board. Adopting recommenda
tions of the Aerospace Special Panel, the Council
ordered the companies to pay workers the back pay in
quarterly installments—17 cents per hour from Decem
ber 5, 1971, to October 1, 1972, at North American.
The ruling, however, did not allow for premium pay
(except at Boeing and Lockheed where overtime was
allowed) nor for holiday and vacation pay. Also, workers
who had quit or were fired after a specified date were
ineligible for payments.
On February 15, 1974, the Council revised the ruling
to permit all workers covered by its December ruling to
receive payments on the same basis of actual hours
worked including overtime premium payments.
On September 30, 1973, a layoff benefit and security
program was established. This plan replaced the SUB
plan, which had been altered by the 1971 agreement to
provide layoff insurance during only the first 2 years of
that contract (the parties had also agreed that prior to
October 1, 1973, details of a program to provide
benefits upon layoff and certain other separations, in
addition to a savings plan, would be worked out). The
company would contribute 6 cents per hour worked to
the new program, less group health insurance premiums
for laid off employees and vacation and sick leave hours.
The company contribution was to be allocated to
individual employee layoff plan “benefit accounts” and
“savings accounts.” The latter allocation would augment
an employee’s savings of $3, $5, or $7 a week. A
lump-sum payout of an employee’s benefit account
could be made after a layoff exceeding 4 weeks or for
certain medical leaves. Employees could withdraw $100
or more of their contribution to the savings account
once every 6 months. The full amount (employee’s and
company’s contributions) of a savings account was paid
on retirement, termination for any reason, layoff over 4
weeks, or death of the employee.
October 1974-September 1977
A tentative 3-year master agreement was reached on
November 15, 1974, by Rockwell International11 and
the UAW for 11,150 aerospace workers in California,
Ohio, and Oklahoma. Workers ratified the agreement 2
days later. This was the first UAW pact in the 1974
round of aerospace bargaining, but it was preceded by
IAM pacts with Boeing and Lockheed.
The settlement ended
months of intensive bar
gaining which had begun on August 13, 1974, and had
continued past the October 1 expiration date of the
1971 contract while workers remained on the job under
day-to-day contract extensions. Initial union demands
had centered on increased wages including an improved
escalator clause, improved pensions with special em
phasis on early retirement benefits, and improved
welfare coverage.
Terms of the agreement provided for wage increases
of 13 to 18 cents an hour plus a 12-cent cost-of-living
“travel” increase (because workers had not received a
cost-of-living adjustment since July 1974) retroactive to
October 2, 1974; 15 to 21 cents on October 5, 1975;
and 16 to 22 cents on October 3, 1976* Minimum rates
for labor grades 1 through 7 in effect before the 1974
agreement, however, were to be retained over the term
of the contract as they were to apply only to those hired
or rehired on or after November 17, 1974. The quarterly
escalator clause was revised effective January 1975 to
provide 1-cent adjustments for each 0.3-point change in
3-month averages of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’
1967=100 Consumer Price Index, instead of each 0.4point change in the 1957-59=100 Index.
To offset partly the cost of improvements in fringe
benefits, 1 to 5 cents of any cost-of-living adjustment,
depending upon the amount of the adjustment, was to
be diverted to finance improvements, up to a maximum
of 11 cents over the life of the contract. The accumu
lated 70-cent cost-of-living allowance was incorporated
11 In February 1973, the company’s shareholders approved the
new corporate name of Rockwell International Corp. as well as
the merger of the Rockwell Manufacturing Co. into the
corporation. Under the new corporate structure, aerospace
workers were placed under the Electronics, North American
Aircraft, and North American Space Operations of the company.
into base rates (except for minimums of grades 1
through 7). The second-shift differential was increased
to 25 cents. Over the contract term, 37 paid holidays
were provided, compared with 34 during the previous
contract. Bereavement pay was liberalized to include
grandparents in the definition of immediate family.
Insurance improvements included dual choice for
hospital-medical-surgical-drug insurance12 and dental
insurance. Four brackets were added to schedules of
sickness and accident benefits which raised the maxi
mum to $155 a week.
Pensions were improved substantially by raising the
benefit rate for those retiring on or after January 1,
1975, to $9 per year of service effective in 1975 and to
$10 in 1977. Effective January 1, 1976, a full benefit
would be paid to those retiring in 1975 or later at age 60
with 20 years of service. Those retired before 1975 also
would have their benefit rate increased in stages to $9
per year of service by 1977. The early retirement
reduction factor was reduced. The Level Income Special
Allowance was increased to $250, and the monthly
supplemental disability benefit was increased to $10 per
year of service.
The layoff benefit and security program allowed
employees to save up to $10 a week under the savings
portion of the program, and the offset to company
contributions to the program because of insurance
premiums was limited. Proportions of funds allocated to
the layoff benefit plan and the savings plan also were
changed.
In addition, the company agreed to “participate in
periodic meetings with professional health and safety
representatives of the International union to discuss
pertinent matters of mutual interest in the health and
safety fields.”
The contract was scheduled to remain in effect
through October 1, 1977. Except for possible cost-ofliving adjustments, the following tables bring the wage
chronology up to date through the contract expiration
date.
12 At the time this bulletin was prepared, the agreed-upon
optional hospital-medical-surgical-drug insurance had not been
implemented pending Federal regulations regarding Health Main
tenance Organizations.
Effective date
May 1, 1941 (by agreement of
July 18, 1941).
Mar. 3, 1943 (by Directive Order
of NWLB, dated Mar. 3,
1943).
Provision
10 cents an hour increase.
Increases averaging approximately
15 cents an hour.
Mar. 5, 1945 (by Directive Order
of NWLB, dated Mar. 2,
1945).
Increase averaging approximately
2 cents an hour.
May 1, 1946 (by agreement of
same date).
Increases averaging 18.5 cents an
hour.
June 23, 1947 (by agreement of
Aug. 21,1947).
5 cents an hour increase.
Aug. 23, 1948 (by agreement of
same date).
Sept. 5, 1949 (by agreement of
Oct. 24,1949).
Oct. 23, 1950 (by agreement of
same date).
10 cents an hour increase.
Automatic progression system inaugurated.
9 cents an hour increase.
Agreement also provided a cost-of-living allowance, with
the first review to be based on Nov. 15, 1950, BLSCPI.2 Additional 5-cent increase in maximum rates for
the first four labor grades and in the maximum rates in
five other specified classifications.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
In accordance with award of arbitration panel of Sept. 13,
1952. Approved by WSB Sept. 10, 1952. The agreement
also provided that 12 cents of the cost-of-living allow
ance be incorporated into the wage rate structure and
accordingly increased the starting point of the escalator
provision.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
2 cents an hour increase.
7 cents an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
3 cents an hour increase.
1 cent an hour decrease.
10 cents an hour increase.
July 28, 1952
Oct. 27,1952
Jan. 26,1953
Apr. 27, 1953
July 27,1953 ...............................
Dec. 15, 195 34 (by agreement of
same date).
2 cents an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
No change.
3 cents an hour decrease (total 1
cent).
No change.
Increase averaging 8.5 cents an
hour.
Dec. 15, 19534 .............................
2 cents an hour increase.
Jan. 25,1954 ................................
Apr. 26,1954 ................................
July 26,1954 ................................
No change.
No change.
No change.
Up to 2 cents an hour additional for job classification
purposes.
Order established 10 labor grades with minimum and
maximum rates into which all occupations were to be
classified. Specialists’ rates 10 and 15 cents higher than
the maximum of the four highest labor grades were also
established.
Order increased maximum rates 5 cents for the top four
labor grades and also for bottom grades. These increases
affected 40 percent of the employees. The specialists’
rate was abolished.
Fifteen cents an hour was retroactive to Jan. 21, 1946. A
rate structure with 17 labor grades as well as new and
revised job descriptions and a job-evaluation plan were
negotiated.
Differential between maximum rate for leadman and “A”
classification of the highest occupation supervised in
creased from 10 to 15 cents.
5 cents an hour increase.
Jan. 29,1951 ................................
Apr. 23, 1951 ................................
July 23, 1951 ................................
Oct. 29, 1951 ...............................
Jan. 28, 1952 ................................
Apr. 28,1952 ................................
Apr. 28, 1952 (by agreement of
July 10, 1952).
................................
................................
................................
................................
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Includes 4-percent general increase and additional increases
of: 4 cents an hour in top labor grade; 5 cents in
leadmen’s maximum differential; and upgrading of some
job classifications.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
The new agreement provided for quarterly adjustments in
the cost-of-living allowance of 1 cent for each 0.6-point
change in the BLS-CPI (revised series). If the CPI fell
below 113.5, the cost-of-living allowance would be 0.5
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Effective date
Provision
Oct. 25,1954 ...............................
Dec. 20, 1954 (by agreement of
Dec. 14, 1954).
No change.
2.5-percent general wage increase,
averaging 5 cents an hour.
Jan. 24.1955 ...............................
Apr. 25,1955 ........... : .................
July 25,1955 ...............................
Oct. 24,1955 ...............................
Jan. 23,1956 ................................
Mar. 19, 1956 (by agreement of
Mar. 15, 1956).
No change.
No change.
No change.
No change.
No change.
Increase averaging 10 cents an
hour.
Apr. 23, 1956 ...............................
July 23, 1956 ...............................
Oct. 29, 1956 ...............................
Jan. 28,1957 ...............................
Mar. 4, 1957 (by agreement of
Mar. 15, 1956).
No change.
1 cent an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
3-percent general wage increase,
with minimum of 6 cents an
hour (estimated average 7
cents).
2 cents an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
Apr. 29,1957 ................................
July 29, 1957 (by agreement
dated Mar. 15, 1956).
Oct. 29, 1957 ...............................
Jan. 27,1958 ...............................
Apr. 28,1958 ...............................
May 19, 1958 (agreement of same
date).
July 28, 1958
Oct. 27,1958
Jan. 26,1959
Apr. 27,1959
May 18, 1959
19, 1958).
...............................
...............................
...............................
...............................
(agreement of May
July 27, 1959 ................................
3 cents an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
2 to 11 cents7 an hour increase,
averaging 3.7 cents.
2 cents an hour increase.
No change.
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour decrease.
3-percent general wage increase,
with minimum of 7 cents an
hour (estimated to average 7.5
cents).
1 cent an hour increase.
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
2.5-percent increase applied after incorporating former
3-cent cost-of-living allowance into base rates. The
starting point of the escalator provision was accordingly
increased: If the CPI fell below 115.3, the cost-of-living
allowance would be 0.5
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Increases to employees varied from 7 to 15 cents an hour.6
Maximum and minimum rate of each job classification
was increased by the same formula, except minimums of
jobs in the 5 lowest labor grades were increased by 6
cents. In addition, some job classifications were up
graded.
Added: 1 labor grade (total 17).
The new agreement provided for quarterly adjustments in
the cost-of-living allowance of 1 cent for each 0.5-point
change in the CPI.5
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
All minimum rates increased by 3 percent.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Additional revisions and adjustments to rate ranges of
certain labor grades8 amounted to an estimated increase
of about 0.4 cent averaged over all employees in the
plant bargaining unit.
Deferred increase of 3 percent, with minimum of 7 cents an
hour, to become effective May 18, 1959.
In addition, previous 15-cent cost-of-living allowance incor
porated into basic wage rates and the escalator provision
continued, with quarterly adjustments in the cost-ofliving allowance of 1 cent for each 0.5-point change in
the BLS-CPI above 122.4 (1947-49=100). If the CPI
fell below 122.9, the cost-of-living allowance would be
o.9
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Oct. 26, 1959 ...............................
Jan. 25,1960 ...............................
Apr. 25,1960 ...............................
June 5, 1960 (agreement of same
date).
1 cent an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
No change.
July 24, 1960 ................................
Oct. 23, 1960 ................................
Jan. 29, 1961 ...............................
Apr. 23,1961 ...............................
May 28, 1961 (agreement dated
June 5, 1960).
July 23, 1961 ................................
Oct. 29,1961 ................................
Jan. 28,1962 ...............................
Apr. 29, 1962 ................................
July 29, 1962 ...............................
July 22, 1962 (agreement dated
Sept. 30,1962).
No change.
1 cent an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
No change.
7 cents an hour increase.
No change.
1 cent an hour increase.
No change.
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
5 to 8 cents11 an hour increase,
averaging 6.1 cents.12
Oct. 28,1962 ...............................
Jan. 27,1963 ................................
Apr. 28,1963 ................................
July 28,1963 ................................
Aug. 25, 1963 (agreement dated
Sept. 30,1962).
Oct. 27,1963 ...............................
Jan. 26,1964 ................................
Apr. 26,1964 ...............................
July 26,1964 ...............................
Sept. 27, 1964 (agreement dated
Sept. 30, 1962).
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
No change.
No change.
6 to 8 cents14 an hour increase,
averaging 6.8 cents an hour.
3 cents an hour increase.
No change.
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
6 to 9 cents an hour increase,
averaging 7.1 cents an hour.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase of 7 cents an hour, effective May 28,
1961.
In addition: 5 cents of the previous 6-cent cost-of-living
allowance incorporated into basic wage rates and escala
tor clause revised to provide only 1 cent an hour
increase in the cost-of-living allowance based on the
BLS-GPI of 125.4 through 126.3 and 1 cent for each
0.5-point change thereafter. If the CPI fell below 125.4
(1947-49=100), the cost-of-living allowance would be
0 .10 Minimum rates of labor grades, 11, 12, 13, 16, and
17 increased 1 cent an hour to restore proper number of
automatic progression steps, and some job classifications
upgraded.
Leadmen’s differential set at 20 cents (formerly 5 to 20
cents) above maximum rate of highest job led.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Revisions of specified job classifications, adjustment of the
rate ranges of some labor grades, changes in automatic
progression, and other changes amounted to an add
itional estimated increase of 1.5 cents an hour when
averaged over employees in all California bargaining
units.
7-cent accumulated cost-of-living allowance incorporated
into basic wage rates and the escalator clause revised to
provide quarterly adjustments in the allowance of 1 cent
for each 0.5-point change in the BLS-CPI above 128.9
(1947-49=100). If the CPI fell below 129.4, the
allowance would be 0 .13
Deferred wage increases of 6 to 8 cents an hour, estimated
as averaging 6.8 cents effective Aug. 25, 1963, and 6 to
9 cents, estimated as averaging 7.1 cents, effective Sept.
27, 1964.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase.
Oct. 25,1964
Jan. 24,1965
Apr. 25,1965
July 25,1965
Oct. 10,1965
date).
...............................
...............................
...............................
...............................
(agreement of same
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
1 cent an hour increase.
8 cents an hour increase.
Oct. 24,1965 ...............................
Jan. 23,1966 ...............................
Apr. 24,1966 ...............................
July 24,1966 ................................
Oct. 2, 1966 (agreement o f Oct.
10, 1965).
Oct. 23,1966 ...............................
Jan. 22,1967 ...............................
Apr. 23,1967 ...............................
July 23, 1967 ...............................
Oct. 1, 1967 (agreement of Oct.
10, 1965).
Oct. 22,1967 ...............................
Jan. 28,1968 ...............................
Apr. 28, 1968 ...............................
July 28,1968 ...............................
Sept. 30, 1968 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
1 cent an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
3 cents an hour increase.
9 cents an hour increase.
3 cents an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
No change.
2 cents an hour increase.
8 cents an hour increase.
4 cents an hour increase.
2 cents an hour increase.
3 cents an hour increase.
3 cents an hour increase.
12 to 33 cents17 an hour in
crease, averaging 19.5 cents an
hour.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Agreement also: (1) Provided for deferred general wage
increases-9 cents an hour on Oct. 2, 1966, and 8 cents
an hour on Oct. 1, 1967;15 (2) incorporated the exist
ing 11-cent-an-hour cost-of-living allowance into base
rates; (3) continued the escalator clause with quarterly
adjustments of 1 cent for each 0.4-point change in the
BLS-CPI above 109.3 (1957-59=100). If the CPI fell
below 109.7, the cost-of-living allowance would be 0;16
(4) upgraded 45 job classifications, which resulted in
additional increases.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly review of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Agreement also: (1) Provided certain wage inequity
adjustments; (2) provided for deferred increases of 9 to
14 cents an hour, averaging 11.5 cents, effective Oct. 5,
1969, and 10 to 19 cents an hour (including special
increases to higher labor grades), averaging 13.4 cents,
effective Oct. 4, 1970; (3) incorporated the existing
27-cent-an-hour cost-of-living allowance into base rates;
(4) revised the cost-of-living escalator clause to provide
annual (instead of quarterly) adjustments on July 20,
1969, and July 19, 1970, of 1 cent for each 0.4-point
increase in the average of the BLS-CPI for March, April,
and May over the Index average for the same 3 months
of the previous year, with minimum and maximum
allowances as follows: Effective July 20, 1969, min
imum of 3 cents and maximum of 8 cents;18 effective
July 19, 1970, minimum of 6 cents and maximum of 16
cents.1 In a separate company letter, dated Oct. 11,
1968, the parties also agreed that to the extent that
cost-of-living adjustments during the 1968 agreement
were less than would have been provided had adjust
ments been 1 cent for each 0.4-point increase in the
average CPI for March, April, and May 1968 compared
with the average for the same months of 1971, the
difference in cents per hour was to be available on
Oct. 1, 1971, for wages and/or other benefits as may be
agreed upon by the parties in the agreement next
succeeding the 1968 agreement.
July 20, 1969 ...............................
Oct. 5, 1969 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
July 19, 1970 ...............................
Oct. 4, 1970 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
Oct. 3, 1971 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
8 cents an hour increase.
9 to 14 cents 1 9 an hour increase,
averaging 11.5 cents an
hour.
8 cents an hour increase.
10 to 19 cents20 an hour in
crease, averaging 13.4 cents an
hour.
34 cents an hour increase.
Dec. 5,1971 ..................................
July 23,1972 ...............................
Oct. 1, 1972 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
Oct. 22, 1972 ...............................
Jan. 21,1973 ...............................
Apr. 22,1973 ...............................
July 22, 1973 ...............................
Sept. 30, 1973 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
Oct. 21,1973 ............................. ..
Jan. 20,1974 ...............................
Apr. 21,1974 ...............................
July 21, 1974 ...............................
Oct. 2, 1974 (agreement dated
Nov. 17, 1974).
12 cents an hour increase.
26 to 37 cents an hour in
crease, averaging 30.3 cents
an hour.24 (Included 14 to
20 cents an hour increase,
averaging 17 cents, originally
scheduled to be effective
Dec. 5, 1971, but deferred
by the Pay Board to Oct. 1,
1972.22)
3 cents an hour increase.
4 cents an hour increase.
3 cents an hour increase.
9 cents an hour increase.
12 to 17 cents an hour increase,
averaging 15 cents an hour. 2 4
8 cents an hour increase.
9 cents an hour increase.
9 cents an hour increase.
13 cents an hour increase.
13 to 18 cents an hour increase,
plus a 12-cent cost-of-living
“travel” increase applied to
base rates, averaging 27.2
cents an hour.25 Minimums
for labor grades 1 through 7
were not increased.26
Annual adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase.
Annual adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Deferred increase, including special increases to higher labor
grades.
“Overage” amount made retroactive under terms of letter
dated Oct. 11, 1968, concerning the cost-of-living
allowance.2 1
Agreement also: (1) Provided for wage increases effective
Dec. 5, 1971, but the Pay Board subsequently deferred
them to Oct. 1, 1972;22 (2) provided two deferred
increases Oct. 1, 1972 and Sept. 30, 1973; (3) incor
porated the 16-cent accumulated cost-of-living allo
wance into base rates on Dec. 5, 1971; and (4) revised
the escalator formula to provide “no-ceiling” adjust
ments of 1 cent for each 0.4-point change in the
BLS-CPI (1957-59=100) beginning July 23, 1972,
based on the 3-month average of the BLS-CPI’s for
March, April, and May 1972, over the average for the
same months in 1971, and quarterly adjustments begin
ning in October 1972 (through July 1974) based on the
3-month average of CPI’s for June, July, and August,
1972 and averages for 3-calendar-month periods thereafter.23
The 1 6 -cen t accumulated cost-of-living allowance
incorporated into base rates.
Cost-of-living adjustment.
Deferred increase.
Quarterly adjustment
Quarterly adjustment
Quarterly adjustment
Quarterly adjustment
Deferred increase.
of
of
of
of
cost-of-living
cost-of-living
cost-of-living
cost-of-living
allowance.
allowance.
allowance.
allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance.
The agreement also: (1) Provided for deferred increases on
Oct. 5, 1975 and Oct. 3, 1976; (2) incorporated the
70-cent cost-of-living allowance accumulated over the
term of the 1971 contract into base rates on Oct. 2,
1974 except for minimums of grades 1 through 726;
(3) revised the escalator formula (effective Jan. 19,
1975 through July 24, 1977) to provide quarterly
adjustments of 1 cent for each 0.3-point change in
Effective date
Provision
Oct. 2, 1974 (agreement dated
Nov. 17,1974).-Continued
Jan. 19,1975
...............................
11 cents an hour increase.
Apr. 20, 1975 ...............................
9 cents an hour increase.
July 20, 1975 ...............................
7 cents an hour increase.
Oct. 5, 1975 (agreement dated
Nov. 17,1974).
Oct. 19, 1975 ...............................
15 to 21 cents an hour increase,
averaging 18.3 cents an
hour.25 Minimums for labor
grades 1 through 7 were not
increased.26
10 cents an hour increase.
Jan. 18,1976 ..................................
8 cents an hour increase.
Apr. 18,1976 ...............................
July 18,1976 ...............................
Oct. 3, 1976 (agreement dated
Nov. 17, 1974).
Oct. 24, 1976 ...............................
Jan.23,1977
...............................
Apr. 17, 1977 ...............................
July 24, 1977 ...............................
16 to 22 cents an hour increase,
averaging an estimated 18.5
cents an hour.25 Minimums
for labor grades 1 through 7
were not increased.2 6
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters
3-month averages of the BLS-CPI (1967=100) over the
3-month average CPI’s for June, July, and August 1974
with a possible diversion from the allowance of from 1
to 5 cents per adjustment, depending on the amount of
the adjustment, to finance fringe benefits (maximum
permitted diversion 11 cents over the contract term).27
Cost-of-living adjustment. An additional 5 cents was
diverted to finance fringe benefits.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance. An
additional 1 cent (total 6) was diverted to finance fringe
benefits.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance. An
additional 1 cent (total 7) was diverted to finance fringe
benefits.
Deferred increase.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance. An
additional 1 cent (total 8) was diverted to finance fringe
benefits.
Quarterly adjustment of cost-of-living allowance. An addi
tional 1 cent (total 9) was diverted to finance fringe
benefits.
Possible adjustment of cost-of-living allowance based on
BLS-CPI’s for December 1975 and January and Febru
ary 1976.2 7
Possible adjustment of cost-of-living allowance based on
BLS-CPI’s for March, April, and May 1976.27
Deferred increase.
Possible adjustment of cost-of-living allowance based on
BLS-CPI’s for June, July, and August 1976.2 7
Possible adjustment of cost-of-living allowance based on
BLS-CPI’s for September, October, and November
1976.2 7
Possible adjustment of cost-of-living allowance based on
BLS-CPI’s for December 1976 and January and Feb
ruary 1977.2 7
Possible adjustment cost-of-living allowance based on
BLS-CPI’s for March, April, and May 1977.2 7
1
General wage changes are upward or downward adjustments affecting a substantial number of workers at one time. Not included
within the term are adjustments in individual rates (promotions, merit increases, etc.) and minor adjustments in wage structure (such as
changes in individual job rates or automatic progression increases) that do not have an immediate and noticeable effect on the average
wage level..
The wage changes listed above were the major adjustments in the general wage level made during the period covered. Because of
fluctuations in earnings, changes in products and employment practices, the omission of nongeneral changes in rates, and other factors,
the sum of the general changes listed will not coincide necessarily with the change in straight-time average hourly earnings over the
same period.
2
The cost-of-living adjustment provisions, as written into the agreement, closely followed the General Motors system but differed in
two respects: (1) Adjustments were based on the November CPI and quarterly thereafter in the North American agreement and on the
July CPI and quarterly thereafter in the General Motors agreement and (2) the North American agreement started at a higher level on
the index and therefore did not break at the same points and months:
Consumer Price Index
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
174.8 or less ....................................................
0
174.9 to 1 7 6 .0 .................................................
1
176.1 to 1 7 7 .1 .................................................
2
177.2 to 1 7 8 .3 .................................................
3
178.4 to 1 7 9 .4 .................................................
4
179.5 to 1 8 0 .5 .................................................
5
and so forth, with a 1-cent adjustment upward or downward for
each 1.14-point change in the index.
3
The new formula, like the old, was based on the CPI (Old Series) but started at a higher level, as follows:
BLS Consumer Price Index
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
188.5 or less ...................................................
0
188.6 to 1 8 9 .7 .................................................
1
189.8 to 1 9 0 .8 .................................................
2
190.9 to 1 9 1 .9 .................................................
3
192.0 to 1 9 3 .1 ..............................................
4
and so forth, with a 1-cent adjustment upward or downward for
each 1.14-point change in the index.
4 Effective October 26 for bargaining unit employees at work during strike.
5The cost-of-living adjustment formulas were:
BLS Consumer Price Index (1947-49=100) during term o f agreement o f Cost-of-living allowance
Dec. 15, 1953
Dec. 14, 1954
Mar. 15, 1956
N o n e ...............................................
113.5 or less
115.3 or less
115.3 or less
lc e n t a n h o u r ...............................
113.6 to 114.1
1 1 5 .4 to ll5 .9
1 1 5 .4 to ll5 .8
2 cents an hour .............................
114.2 to 114.7
116.0 to 116.5
115.9 to 116.3
3 cents an h o u r .............................
114.8 to 115.3
116.6 to 117.1
116.4 to 116.8
4 cents an h o u r .............................
115.4 to 115.9
117.2 to 117.7
116.9 to 117.3
5 cents an h o u r .............................
116.0 to 116.5
117.8 to 118.3
117.4 to 117.8
and so forth, with a 1-cent change for each 0.6-point change in the index (1953 and 1954 agreements); for each
0.5-point change in the index (1956 agreement). The base index months were February, May, August, and
November.
6
Rates of individual workers were increased according to the following schedule:
Rate range as o f Mar. 14, 1956
$1.54
$1.83
$1.92
$2.01
$2.11
$2.20
$2.29
$2.38
$2.47
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
$ 1 .8 2 .................................
$ 1 .9 1 ...........................................
$ 2 .0 0 ...........................................
$ 2 .1 0 ..........................................
$ 2 .1 9 ...........................................
$ 2 .2 8 ..........................................
$ 2 .3 7 ...........................................
$ 2 .4 6 ..........................................
$ 2 .5 3 ...........................................
Amount o f increase
(cents per hour)
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
7
Minimum and maximum of labor grades 1 through 7 increased 2 cents an hour; those in grades 8 through 1 1 ,3 cents; those in
grades 12 and 13, 4 cents; those in grades 14, 15, 16, and 17 increased 5, 6, 8, and 11 cents, respectively.
8The minimum rates in grades 4, 7 ,1 0 , and 17 were increased an additional 1 centigrade 6, 2 cents; grades 5 and 13, 3 cents; grade
14,6 cents; and grades 15 and 16, 7 cents.
9The agreement provided that quarterly cost-of-living adjustments effective in January, April, July, and October be based on the
BLS-CPI for November, February, May, and August, as follows:
Consumer Price Index (194 7-49=100)
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
122.8 or less ...................................................
122.9 to 1 2 3 .3 .................................................
123.4 to 1 2 3 .8 .................................................
123.9 to 1 2 4 .3 .................................................
124.4 to 1 2 4 .8 .................................................
124.9 to 1 2 5 .3 .................................................
and so forth, for each 0.5-point change in the index.
0
1
2
3
4
5
The cost-of-living allowance in effect was included in computing payments for overtime, vacation, sick leave, holidays, and call-in
pay.
10
The agreement provided that quarterly cost-of-living adjustments effective in January, April, July, and October be based on the
BLS-CPI for November, February, May, and August, as follows:
Consumer Price Index (1947-49=100)
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
125.3 or less ..................................................
125.4 to 1 2 6 .3 ................................................
126.4 to 1 2 6 .8 ................................................
126.9 to 1 2 7 .3 ................................................
127.4 to 1 2 7 .8 ................................................
127.9 to 1 2 8 .3 ................................................
and so forth, for each 0.5-point change in the index.
0
1
2
3
4
5
The cost-of-living allowance was included in computing payments for overtime, vacation, sick leave, holidays, and call-in pay.
1
Minimum and maximum of labor grades 1 through 4 increased 5 cents an hour; grades 5 through 11, 6 cents; grades 12 through
16, 7 cents; and grade 17,8 cents.
12 Increases of the same range were provided employees at the Columbus, Ohio, plant; at Neosho, Mo., general hourly wage increases
ranged from 8 to 16 cents in 1962, from 8 to 14 cents in 1963, and from 7 to 14 cents in 1964. On Sept. 27, 1964, the graded
wage-rate structure at the Neosho plant will be the same as at the California and Columbus plants.
13The agreement provided that quarterly cost-of-living adjustments effective in January, April, July, and October be based on the
BLS-CPI for November, February, May, and August, as follows:
Consumer Price Index (1947-49=100)
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
129.3 or less ...................................................
129.4 to 1 2 9 .8 .................................................
129.9 to 1 3 0 .3 .................................................
130.4 to 1 3 0 .8 .................................................
130.9 to 1 3 1 .3 .................................................
131.4 to 1 3 1 .8 .................................................
and so forth, for each 0.5-point change in the index.
0
1
2
3
4
5
The cost-of-living allowance was included in computing payments for overtime, vacation, sick leave, holidays, and call-in pay.
14Minimum and maximum of labor grades 1 through 7 increased 6 cents an hour; grades 8 through 13, 7 cents; and grades 14
through 17,8 cents.
15 In addition, employees’ take-home pay increased approximately 2 cents an hour on Nov. 1, 1965, when the company assumed
employee contributions for group life, hospital, surgical, and medical insurance.
16 The agreement provided that quarterly cost-of-living adjustments, effective in January, April, July, and October, be based on the
BLS-CPI for November, February, May, and August, respectively, as follows:
Consumer Price Index (1957-59=100)
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
109.6 or less ....................................................
0
109.7 to 1 1 0 .0 .................................................
1
110.1 to 1 1 0 .4 ..............................................
2
110.5 to 1 1 0 .8 ..............................................
3
110.9 to 1 1 1 .2 ..............................................
4
111.3 to 1 1 1 .6 ..............................................
5
and so forth* with a 1-cent adjustment for each 0.4-point change
in the index.
17 Minimum and maximum of labor grade 1 increased 12 cents an hour; grades 2 through 6, 13 cents; grades 7 and 8, 14 cents; grade
9, 15 cents; grade 10, 19 cents; grades 11 through 14, 21 cents; grade 15,24 cents; grade 16, 29 cents; and grade 17, 33 cents.
18 The agreement provided that cost-of-living adjustments be determined according to the following tabulations:
Effective July 20, 1969:
Consumer Price Index (1957-59=100)
3-month average
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
121.1 or less ................................................
1 2 1 .2 - 1 2 1 .5 ...............................................
1 2 1 .6 - 1 2 1 .9 ................................................
1 2 2 .0 - 122.3 ................................................
1 2 2 .4 - 122.7 ................................................
122.8 or m o r e ..............................................
3
4
5
6
7
8
Effective July 19, 1970:
Consumer Price Index (1957-59=100)
3-month average
Cost-of-living
allowance
(cents per hour)
122.3 or less ................................................
1 2 2 .4 - 122.7 ................................................
1 2 2 .8 - 123.1 ...............................................
1 2 3 .2 - 123.5 ................................................
1 2 3 .6 - 123.9 ................................................
1 2 4 .0 - 124.3 ...............................................
1 2 4 .4 - 124.7 ...............................................
1 2 4 .8 - 125.1 ................................................
1 2 5 .2 - 125.5 ...............................................
1 2 5 .6 - 1 2 5 . 9 . . ...........................................
126.0 or m o r e ..............................................
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
The cost-of-living allowance was included in computing payments for overtime, vacations, sick leave, bereavement leave, holidays,
and call-in time.
19
Minimum and maximum of labor grade 1 increased 9 cents an hour; grades 2 through 6, 10 cents; grades 7 through 10, 11 cents;
grades 11 through 14, 12 cents; grades 15 and 16, 13 cents; and grades 17 and OS, 14 cents.
2
°Minimum and maximum of labor grades 1 through 3 increased 10 cents an hour; grades 4 and 5, 11 cents; grades 6 through 9 ,1 2
cents; grades 10 and 11, 13 cents; grades 12 and 13, 15 cents; grade 14, 16 cents; grades 15 and 16, 18 cents; and grades 17 and OS, 19
cents.
21 See terms of letter under listing of Sept. 30, 1968 contract terms in this table.
2 2Wage increases by labor grades originally scheduled for Dec. 5, 1971, but deferred by the Pay Board to Oct. 1, 1972, were as
follows:
Labor grade
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Amount
(cents per hour)
20
20
19
19
18
18
17
17
17
16
16
15
15
15
15
14
14
14
Beginning March 1974, workers received 17 cents per hour worked including overtime premium in quarterly installments for the
period from Dec. 5,1971 to Oct. 1, 1972.
23The agreement provided that cost-of-living adjustments effective July 23, 1972, and quarterly thereafter beginning Oct. 22, 1972
(through July 21, 1974) be determined as follows:*
3-month average
Consumer Price Index *
(1957-59=100)
Amoun t
(cents per hour)
139.9 or less .................................. ................
0
1
140.0 to 1 4 0 .3 ................................. ................
140.4 to 1 4 0 .7 ................................. ................
2
3
140.8 to 1 4 1 .1 ................................ ................
4
141.2 to 1 4 1 .5 ............................... ................
141.6 to 1 4 1 .9 ................................ ................
5
142.0 to 1 4 2 .3 ................................ ................
6
142.4 to 1 4 2 .7 ................................. ................
7
142.8 to 1 4 3 .1 ............................... ................
8
143.2 to 1 4 3 .5 ............................... ................
9
143.6 to 1 4 3 .9 ............................... ................
10
144.0 to 1 4 4 .3 ............................... ................
11
144.4 to 1 4 4 .7 ............................... ................
12
144.8 to 1 4 5 .1 ................................ ................
13
145.2 to 1 4 5 .5 ................................ ................
14
145.6 to 1 4 5 .9 ...............................
15
and so forth, with a 1-cent adjustment for each 0.4-point change
in the average Index for the appropriate 3 months.
*The cost-of-living review in July 1972 was based on the BLS-CPI’s for March, April, and May 1972; quarterly reviews beginning in
Oct. 1972 were based on 3-month averages o f the Indexes for June, July, and August 1972 and 3-calendar-month periods thereafter.
The allowance was included in computing overtime, vacation, sick leave, bereavement, holiday, call-in, and jury-duty pay.
Amount (cents per hour)
Labor grade
Oct. 1, 1972*
1 8 ........................................
1 7 ........................................
1 6 ........................................
1 5 .............................
1 4 ........................................
1 3 ........................................
1 2 ........................................
1 1 ........................................
1 0 ........................................ ..
9 ........................................
8
7 ........................................
6 ........................................
5 ........................................
4 ........................................
3 ........................................
2 ........................................
1 ........................................
Sept. 30, 1973
37
37
35
35
33
33
32
31
31
30
29
28
28
28
27
26
26
26
17
17
16
16
16
15
15
15
14
14
14
14
13
13
13
13
12
12
^Includes 14- to 20-cent increases as shown in footnote 22 above.
2 5Wage increases according to labor grade were as follows:
Amount*
(cents per hour)
Labor grade
1 8 ...............................
1 7 ...............................
1 6 ...............................
15 . ..............................
1 4 ...............................
1 3 ...............................
1 2 ...............................
1 1 ...............................
1 0 ...............................
9 ................................
8 ................................
7 ................................
6 ...............................
5 ...............................
4 ...............................
3 ...............................
2 ...............................
1 ...............................
Effective date
___
___
___
___
Oct. 2,
1974**
Oct. 5,
1975
Oct. 3,
1976
30
30
29
29
28
28
28
27
27
26
26
26
26
25
25
25
25
25
21
21
20
20
19
19
18
18
18
17
17
17
17
16
16
16
16
15
22
21
20
20
20
19
19
19
18
18
18
17
17
17
17
16
16
16
*Increases were not applicable to minimums for labor grades 1 through 7 (footnote 26).
**Increases include 12-cent cost-of-living “travel” increase applied to base rates.
2 6Effective Nov. 17, 1974, labor grades 1 through 7 minimum rates applied only to those hired or rehired on or after such date and
did not apply to incumbents or those with reinstatement rights on such date. The minimum rates for grades 1 through 7 in effect
before the 1974 agreement were retained through the 1974 contract.
2 7The agreement provided that cost-of-living adjustments effective Jan. 19, 1975 and quarterly thereafter through July 24, 1977 be
determined as follows:
3-month average
A m ount**
Consumer Price Index
(cents per hour)
(1967=100)
148.5 or less ....................................................
0
148.6 to 1 4 8 .8 .................................................
1
148.9 to 1 4 9 .1 ..............................................
2
149.2 to 1 4 9 .4 .................................................
3
149.5 to 1 4 9 .7 .................................................
4
149.8 to 1 5 0 .0 .................................................
5
150.1 to 1 5 0 .3 .................................................
6
150.4 to 1 5 0 .6 .................................................
7
150.7 to 1 5 0 .9 .................................................
8
151.0 to 1 5 1 .2 .................................................
9
151.3 to 1 5 1 .5 .................................................
10
151.6 to 1 5 1 .8 .................................................
11
151.9 to 1 5 2 .1 .................................................
12
152.2 to 1 5 2 .4 .................................................
13
152.5 to 1 5 2 .7 .................................................
14
152.8 to 1 5 3 .0 .................................................
15
and so forth, with a 1-cent adjustment for each 0.3-point change
in the average index for the appropriate 3 months.
The cost-of-living allowance was used to compute payments for overtime, vacations, sick leave, bereavement leave, holidays, call-in
time, and jury duty.
*The cost-of-living review in Jan. 1975 was based on the BLS-CPTs for September, October, and November 1974 and subsequent
quarterly reviews were based on 3-calendar-month periods thereafter.
**Up to 11 cents could be diverted from the allowance over the term of the contract to finance fringe benefits provided there were
new cost-of-living allowances generated, in quarterly increments of not less than 1 cent nor more than 5 cents, as follows:
Cost-of-living
adjustment
per quarter
(in cents)
Cost-of-living
diversion
per quarter
(in cents)
0 .......................................................................................
1 through 1 1 ..........................................................
0
1
1 2
2
.................................................................
1 3 ..........................................................................
1 4 ..........................................................................
15 and above..........................................................
3
4
5
Effective date
Sept. 5,
1949
Labor grade and selected job titles
Grade I-Jig and fixture builders, A; machinists,
maintenance, A; patternmakers, metal and
wood, A; tool and die makers, A ......................
Grade II-Machinists, horizontal boring mill, lathe,
milling machine, planer; machine rebuilders . . .
Grade III—Grinders, tool and cutter, A; inspectors,
final assem bly; instrument technicians;
patternmakers, plastic, A; wood-mockup and
tool builders, A ....................................................
Grade IV-Electricians, maintenance, A; heat
treaters, steel, A; inspectors, welding, A ...........
Grade V -C a b in e tm a k e r s, A; diemakers,
cast-multiple; molders, closed molds, A;
operators, grinder (production) .........................
Grade VI-Blacksmiths; carpenters, maintenance,
A; inspectors, fabrication, A; jig and fixture
b u i l d e r s , B; m old ers, a ircraft, A;
operators-drop hammer, A, power hammer, A,
milling machine, A, turret lathe, A; template
layout m e n .............................................................
Grade VII-Assemblers, aircraft, A; die finishers, A;
operators, power brake, A; riggers, crane, A;
mechanics, sheet m e ta l........................................
Grade VUI-Platers, chrome, A; coremakers;
mechanics, compressor, A; molders, aircraft, A;
operators, punch press, A; painters, aircraft,
A ............................................................................
Grade IX-Operators, drill press, A; repairmen,
portable tool and equipment; operators, stretch
press, A; welders, spot, A ....................................
Grade X -D ie finishers, B; heat treaters, aluminum,
A; operators-band tooling saw, A; forming roll,
A, grinder, B, power hammer, B, punch press,
B, saw, A, square-shear, A, straightening-press,
A, turret lathe, B; template makers, A .............
Grade XI—Assemblers, aircraft, B; cabinetmakers,
B; e lec tro p la te r s, A; operators-milling
machine, B; radial arm-router, A; truckers,
dispatch (power), A; tube benders, A; welders,
spot, B ...................................................................
Grade XII-Buffers and polishers, A; fitters, metal
(assembler), B; operators, drill press, B;
production control stock clerks, A ....................
Grade X lll-C o v e r e r s , fabric, A; oilers,
maintenance, A; operators-drop hammer, C,
radial arm-drill, A, sewing machine, A;
repairmen, portable tool and equipment, B;
riveters, machine, A; truckers, dispatch
(power), B .............................................................
Grade XIV-Burrers, hand and power, A; die
finishers, C; drill operators, sheet metal;
laborers; template makers, B .............................
Apr. 28,
19522
Oct. 23,
1950
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
$1.75
$1.95
$1.84
$2.09
$2.06
$2.31
1.70
1.90
1.79
2.04
2.01
2.26
1.65
1.85
1.74
1.99
1.96
2.21
1.60
1.80
1.69
1.94
1.91
2.16
1.55
1.75
1.64
1.84
1.86
2.06
1.50
1.70
1.59
1.79
1.81
2.01
1.45
1.65
1.54
1.74
1.76
1.96
1.45
1.60
1.54
1.69
1.76
1.91
1.40
1.55
1.49
1.64
1.71
1.86
1.35
1.50
1.44
1.59
1.66
1.81
1.30
1.45
1.39
1.54
1.61
1.76
1.25
1.40
1.34
1.49
1.56
1.71
1.20
1.35
1.29
1.44
1.51
1.66
1.15
1.30
1.24
1.39
1.46
1.61
Effective date
Grade X V -A ssem b ler aifcraft, C; electroplaters,
B; paint shop preparation men; production
control stofck clerks, B; tube finishers and
assemblers^4B ........................................................
Grade XVi-Janitors, A .............................................
Grade XVII-Coverers, fabric, B .............................
Apr. 28,
19522
Oct. 23,
1950
Sept. 5,
1949
Labor grade and selected job titles
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
1.10
1.10
1.10
1.25
1.20
1.15
1.19
1.19
1.19
1.34
1.29
1.24
1.41
1.41
1.41
1.56
1.51
1.46
Effective date
Labor grade3 and selected job titles
Grade 17 (I)-Crew chiefs, flight line; layout men,
machine tools, senior; machinists-jig borer,
maintenance; patternmakers, metal and wood,
senior; tool and die makers, senior ....................
G ra d e
16 (11) —M a c h in e r e b u ild e r s;
machinists-horizontal boring mill, lathe,
milling machine, planer; mockup men, electrical
and radio ...............................................................
Grade 15 (III)-Grinders, machine tools and
p r e c i s i o n cutters; in sp ecto rs, final
assembly-electrical, mechanical; instrument
technicians, aircraft; mechanics, flight line
engine checkout; mockup men, wood ..............
Grade 14 (IV)-Heat treaters, steel, senior;
inspectors, welding, senior; machinists, shaper;
metal fitters, developmental and experimental;
mockup men, tube ...............................................
Grade 136-Mechanics, air conditioning and
refrigeration ; stationary engineers, high
pressure .................................................................
Grade 12 (V)-Diemakers, nonferrous, senior;
mechanics, final assembly electronics checkout;
molders, closed molds; operators, grinder
(production), senior .............................................
Grade 11 ( V I ) - D ie finishers, precision;
inspectors-fabrication, senior; templates,
senior; mechanics, flight line, senior; layout
men, template; operators-engine lathe, senior,
jig borer, milling machine, senior, power
hammer, turret lathe, senior; tool and die
makers ...................................................................
Grade 10 (VII)-Assemblers, aircraft structures
( p r e c i s i o n ) ; h e a t t r e a t e r s , steel;
mechanics-aircraft structures, metal fitting,
sheet metal; molders, senior; mockup and
tooling builders, wood; operators-power brake,
senior, punch press, senior ..................................
Grade 9 (VIH)-Coremakers; grinders, machine
tools and cutters; machinists, bench, senior;
mechanics, compressor; painters, aircraft,
senior; platers, chrome ........................................
Dec. 15,
19534
Dec. 20,
1954s
Mar. 19,
1956
Mar. 4,
1957
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
$2.18
$2.44
$2.27
$2.53
$2.39
$2.68
$2.46
$2.76
2.09
2.35
2.17
2.44
2.28
2.58
2.35
2.66
2.04
2.30
2.12
2.39
2.23
2.53
2.30
2.61
1.99
2.25
2.07
2.34
2.17
2.47
2.24
2.54
1.93
2.19
2.01
2.28
2.14
2.40
2.20
2.47
1.93
2.14
2.01
2.22
2.11
2.34
2.17
2.41
1.88
2.09
1.96
2.17
2.05
2.28
2.11
2.35
1.83
2.04
1.91
2.12
1.99
2.23
2.05
2.30
1.83
1.99
1.91
2.07
1.99
2.17
2.05
2.24
Effective date
Labor grade3 and selected job titles
Grade 8 (IX)-Diemakers, nonferrous; heat
treaters, aircraft parts; mechanics, portable tool
and equipment; operators-drill press, senior;
stretch press and setup men; welders, spot,
senior ......................................................................
Grade 7 (X )-D ie finishers; inspectors-fabrication,
processing, welding; operators-forming-roll,
senior; grinder (production), punch press,
shear-square, tooling band saw, senior, turret
lathe; power hammer men; template makers;
truckdrivers; tube benders ..................................
Grade 6 (XI)-Assemblers-aircraft structures,
metal fitting; electroplaters; installers, aircraft;
operators-milling machine, lift truck, senior;
painters, aircraft; stationary engineers, low
pressure; tool crib men; welders, spot ..............
Grade 5 (XII)-Assemblers, tube; buffers and
polish ers; m a ch in ists, bench; o ilers,
maintenance; operators-drill press, engine
lathe; utility men-foundry, to o lin g ..................
Grade 4 (XIII)-Assemblers, electrical bench;
coverers, fabric layout men; operators-sewing
machine, senior, shear, tooling band saw; power
truckdrivers, dispatch; repairmen, portable tool
and equipment; riveters, m ach in e.......................
Grade 3 (XIV)-Burrers, hand and power;
fabricators, template; inspectors, utility;
laborers; tool crib attendants; tube benders,
small ......................................................................
Grade 2 (XV)-Assemblers, aircraft (production);
carton maker; installers, aircraft (production);
paint shop preparation m en; utility
men-machine shop, plastics, sheet metal; wire
workers, electrical bench ....................................
Grade 1 (XVI)7—Coil preparation men; janitors;
operators, elevator ...............................................
Dec. 15,
19534
Mar. 19,
1956
Dec. 20,
1954s
Mar. 4,
1957
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
1.78
1.93
1.86
2.01
1.94
2.11
2.00
2.17
1.73
1.88
1.80
1.96
1.87
2.05
1.93
2.11
1.67
1.83
1.74
1.91
1.81
1.99
1.86
2.05
1.62
1.78
1.69
1.86
1.75
1.94
1.80
2.00
1.57
1.73
1.64
1.80
1.70
1.87
1.75
1.93
1.52
1.67
1.59
1.74
1.65
1.81
1.70
1.87
1.47
1.62
1.54
1.69
1.60
1.76
1.65
1.82
1.47
1.57
1.54
1.64
1.60
1.71
1.65
1.77
Effective date
Grade 17 (I)-Crew chiefs, flight line; layout men,
machine tools, senior; machinists-jig borer,
maintenance; patternmakers, metal and wood,
senior; tool and die makers, senior ....................
G ra d e
16 ( I I ) - M a c h i n e
r e b u ild e r s;
machinists-horizontal boring mill, lathe,
milling machine, planer; mockup men, electrical
and radio ...............................................................
May 18,
1959
May 19,
1958s
Labor grade and selected job titles
June 5,
I960’
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
$2.73
$3.02
$2.81
$3.11
$2.87
$3.16
2.65
2.89
2.73
2.98
2.79
3.03
Effective date
Grade 15 (III)-Grinders, machine tools and
p r e c i s i o n cutters; in sp e c to r s, final
assembly-electrical, mechanical; instrument
technicians, aircraft; mechanics, flight line
engine checkout; mockup men, wood ..............
Grade 14 (IV)-Heat treaters, steel, senior;
inspectors, welding, senior; machinists, shaper;
metal fitters, developmental and experimental;
mechanics, air conditioning and refrigeration;
mockup men, t u b e ...............................................
Grade 13—Mechanics-electrical and electronic
experimental, structural assembly experimental,
pow er plant experimental, installations
experimental ........................................................
Grade 12 (V)-Diemakers, nonferrous, senior;
mechanics, final assembly electronics checkout;
molders, closed molds; operators, grinder
(production), senior .............................................
Grade 11 ( V I ) - D ie finishers, precision;
inspectors-fabrication, senior; templates,
senior; mechanics, flight line, senior; layout
men, template; operators-engine lathe, senior,
jig borer, milling machine, senior, power
hammer, turret lathe, senior; tool and die
makers ...................................................................
Grade 10 (VII)-Assemblers, aircraft structures
( p r e c i s i o n ) ; h e a t t r e a t e r s , steel;
mechanics-aircraft structures, metal fitting,
sheet metal; molders, senior; mockup and
tooling builders, wood; operators-power brake,
senior, punch press, senior ..................................
Grade 9 (VHI)-Coremakers; grinders, machine
tools and cutters; machinists, bench, senior;
mechanics, compressor; painters, aircraft,
senior; platers, chrome ........................................
Grade 8 (IX)—Diemakers, nonferrous; heat
treaters, aircraft parts; mechanics, portable tool
and equipment; operators—drill press, senior,
stretch press and setup men; welders, spot,
senior ......................................................................
Grade 7 (X )-D ie finishers; inspectors-fabrication,
processing, welding; operators-forming-roll,
senior, grinder (production), punch press,
shear-square, tooling band saw, senior, turret
lathe; power hammer men; template makers;
truckdrivers; tube benders ..................................
Grade 6 (XI)-Assemblers-aircraft structures,
metal fitting; electroplaters; installers, aircraft;
operators-milling machine, lift truck, senior;
painters, aircraft; stationary engineers, low
pressure; tool crib men; welders, spot .............
May 18,
1959
May 19,
1958s
Labor grade and selected job titles
June 5,
I9609
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
2.58
2.82
2.66
2.90
2.71
2.95
2.50
2.74
2.58
2.82
2.63
2.87
2.42
2.66
2.49
2.74
2.55
2.79
2.36
2.60
2.43
2.68
2.49
2.73
2.29
2.53
2.36
2.61
2.42
2.66
2.24
2.48
2.31
2.55
2.36
2.60
2.23
2.42
2.30
2.49
2.35
2.54
2.18
2.35
2.25
2.42
2.30
2.47
2.11
2.28
2.18
2.35
2.23
2.40
2.05
2.22
2.12
2.29
2.17
2.34
Effective date
Grade 5 (XII)-Assemblers, tube; buffers and
polishers; m ach in ists, bench; o ilers,
maintenance; operators-drill press, engine
lathe; utility men-foundry, tooling ..................
Grade 4 (XIII)-Assemblers, electrical bench;
operators-sewing machine, senior, shear,
tooling band saw; power truckdrivers, dispatch;
repairmen, portable tool and equipment;
riveters, machine .................................................
Grade 3 (XIV)-Burrers, hand and power;
fabricators, template; inspectors, utility;
laborers; tool crib attendants; tube benders,
small .....................................................................
Grade 2 (XV)-Carton maker; paint shop
preparation men; utility men-machine shop,
plastics, sheet metal; janitors; wire workers,
electrical bench ....................................................
Grade 1 (XVI)-Coil preparation men; operators,
elevator .................................................................
May 18,
1959
May 19,
1958s
Labor grade and selected job titles
June 5,
I9609
Minimum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
2.00
2.17
2.07
2.24
2.12
2.29
1.93
2.10
2.00
2.17
2.05
2.22
1.87
2.04
1.94
2.11
1.99
2.16
1.82
1.99
1.89
2.06
1.94
2.11
1.82
1.94
1.89
2.01
1.94
2.06
Effective date
Labor grade and selected job titles
Grade 17-Crew chiefs, flight line; inspectors,
major electronic systems, missile preflight;
machinists, maintenance; mechanics, reactor
assembly, senior; patternmakers, metal and
wood, senior; tool and die makers, senior;
toolmakers, senior; tool proofers ......................
Grade 16—Machinists, lathe, vertical turret lathe;
mechanics, machine parts, aircraft, electrical
and electronic, senior, aircraft major assembly .
Grade 15-Electricians, flight line checkout;
inspector, electronic test console, final;
mechanics, operational, aircraft jet engine test,
flight line engine checkout; operators, vertical
turret lathe and setup m an-autom atic.............
Grade 14-Electricians, missile, final assembly
checkout; mechanics, training unit, optical
instrument, senior, reactor assembly ................
Grade 13-Mechanics, electrical and electronic
experimental, brazed honeycomb structure
experimental, structural assembly experimental,
in sta lla tio n s experimental, power plant
experimental ........................................................
Grade 12-Electricians, final assembly checkout,
rocket engine; inspectors, electronics testing,
u ltrason ic; m echanics, missile preflight
electronics; patternmakers, metal and wood . .
May 28,
1961
July 22,
1962'°
Aug. 25,
1963
Sept. 27,
1964
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
$2.94
$3.23
$3.09
$3.38
$3.17
$3.46
$3.26
$3.55
2.86
3.10
3.00
3.24
3.08
3.32
3.16
3.40
2.78
3.02
2.92
3.16
3.00
3.24
3.08
3.32
2.70
2.94
2.84
3.08
2.92
3.16
3.00
3.24
2.62
2.86
2.76
3.00
2.83
3.07
2.91
3.15
2.56
2.80
2.70
2.94
2.77
3.01
2.85
3.09
Effective date
Labor grade and selected job titles
Grade 11-Electricians, flight line; inspectors,
electronics receiving, senior; mechanics, flight
line, senior; operators, engine, turret lathe,
senior; operators, vertical turret lathe, and
setup man; toolmakers; tool and die makers . .
Grade 10-Assemblers, GSE structure, senior,
training unit; diem akers-PB T, senior;
electrician s, aircraft; mechanics, aircraft
stru ctu re, brazed honeycomb structure,
ele c tr o n ic chassis assembly, operational
mockup, aircraft installation, powerplant, test
equipment; model makers, training unit; testers
and sealers, cabin, tank, senior ...........................
Grade 9-Inspectors, electronic assembly, senior,
material surface; mechanics, optical
instruments ..........................................................
Grade 8-Checkers, machined parts; inspectors,
aircraft painting and sealing; operators, contour
roll, senior .............................................................
Grade 7-Electrical men, flight line; inspectors,
processing; operators, turret lathe, forming-roll
Grade 6-Diemakers, PBT; inspectors, electronic
assembly, electronic receiving, shipping ...........
Grade 5-Inspectors, receiving; jig builders, router;
operators, edge preparation machine; utility
men, to o lin g ..........................................................
Grade 4-Inspectors, utility tooling; operators,
contour roll; utility men, maintenance.........
Grade 3-Attendants, garage service; inspectors,
utility; laborers; sorters and classifiers, material;
template maker ...................................................
Grade 2-Janitors; utility men, general, machine
shop, paint and processing, plastics, sheet metal
Grade 1-Operators, elevator; preparation men, coil
July 22,
196210
May 28,
1961
Aug. 25,
1963
Sept. 27,
1964
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
2.49
2.73
2.62
2.86
2.69
2.93
2.76
3.00
2.43
2.67
2.56
2.80
2.63
2.87
2.70
2.94
2.42
2.61
2.55
2.74
2.62
2.81
2.69
2.88
2.37
2.54
2.50
2.67
2.57
2.74
2.64
2.81
2.30
2.47
2.43
2.60
2.49
2.66
2.55
2.73
2.24
2.41
2.37
2.54
2.43
2.60
2.49
2.66
2.19
2.36
2.32
2.49
2.38
2.55
2.44
2.61
2.12
2.29
2.24
2.41
2.30
2.47
2.36
2.53
2.06
2.23
2.18
2.35
2.24
2.41
2.30
2.47
2.18
2.13
2.13
2.13
2.30
2.25
2.19
2.19
2.36
2.31
2.25
2.25
2.42
2.37
2.01
2.01
Effective date
Oct. 10,
1965*1
Labor grade and selected job titles
Grade 17-Crew chiefs, flight line; electricians,
flight line checkout;12 inspectors: major
e lec tro n ics system s; m issile preflight,
ele c tr o n ic s, senior \ m issile preflight,
mechanical, senior; machinists, maintenance;
m e c h a n ic s : aircraft, e le c tr ic a l and
electronics,12 aircraft jet engine test;12
aircraft, major assembly;12 flight line engine
c h e c k o u t;12 reactor assembly, senior;
patternmakers, metal and wood, senior; tool
and die makers, senior; toolmakers, senior . . . .
Oct. 2,
1966
Oct. 1,
1967
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
$3.45
$3.74
$3.54
$3.83
$3.62
$3.91
Effective date
Oct. 10,
1965“
Labor grade and selected job titles
Grade 16-Machinists: lathe; vertical turret lathe;
mechanics, machine p a r ts....................................
Grade 15-Inspectors, electronic test consoles,
final; mechanics, operational mockup, senior;
operators, vertical turret lathe and setup men,
autom atic...............................................................
Grade 14-Electricians, missile final assembly
checkout; mechanics: training unit; reactor
assembly ...............................................................
Grade 13-Mechanics: electrical and electronics,
e x p e r i m e n t a l ; stru ctu ra l assem b ly,
experimental; installation, experimental .........
Grade 12-Electricians, final assembly checkout,
rocket engines; inspectors: electronics receiving,
se n io r ;1 2 electronics testing; ultrasonic;
patternmakers, metal and wood .........................
Grade 11-Electricians, flight line; mechanics,
flight line; operators: engine lathe, senior;
turret lathe, senior; vertical turret lathe, and
setup men; toolmakers; tool and die makers ..
Grade 10-Assemblers: GSE structures, senior;
training unit; diemakers, PBT, senior;
electrician s, aircraft; mechanics: aircraft
structures; brazed honeycomb structures;
ele c tr o n ic chassis assembly; operational
mockup; aircraft installation; powerplant; test
equipment; sealers and testers: cabin; tank,
senior ......................................................................
Grade 9-Inspectors: electronic assembly, senior;
material surfaces .................................................
Grade 8-Checkers, machined parts; inspectors,
aircraft painting and sealing; operators, contour
roll, senior .............................................................
Grade 7—Inspectors, processing; operators: turret
lathe; forming-roll ...............................................
Grade 6-Diemakers, PBT; inspectors: electronic
assembly; electronics receiving; shipping .........
Grade 5 -Inspectors, receiving; jig builders, router;
utility men, tooling .............................................
Grade 4 - Inspectors, utility tooling; operators,
contour roll; sorters and classifiers, material;12
utility men, maintenance ....................................
Grade 3-Attendants, garage service; inspectors,
utility; laborers; template m akers......................
Grade 2-Janitors; utility men: general; machine
shop; paint and processing; plastics; sheet
metal ......................................................................
Grade 1-Preparation men, coil ...............................
Oct. 2,
1966
Oct. 1,
1967
Minimum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
3.35
3.59
3.44
3.68
3.52
3.76
3.27
3.51
3.36
3.60
3.44
3.68
3.19
3.43
3.28
3.52
3.36
3.60
3.10
3.34
3.19
3.43
3.27
3.51
3.04
3.28
3.13
3.37
3.21
3.45
2.95
3.19
3.04
3.28
3.12
3.36
2.89
3.13
2.98
3.22
3.06
3.30
2.88
3.07
2.97
3.16
3.05
3.24
2.83
3.00
2.92
3.09
3.00
3.17
2.75
2.92
2.84
3.01
2.92
3.09
2.68
2.85
2.77
2.94
2.85
3.02
2.63
2.80
2.72
2.89
2.80
2.97
2.55
2.72
2.64
2.81
2.72
2.89
2.49
2.66
2.58
2.75
2.66
2.83
2.44
2.44
2.61
2.56
2.53
2.53
2.70
2.65
2.61
2.61
2.78
2.73
1Rates do not reflect cost-of-living allowances in effect until incorporated into base rates. For cost-of-living allowances paid in
addition to these rates after an escalator clause was adopted by the 1950 agreement, see table 1. Although not changing base rates,
these allowances affect earnings of workers on the payroll at effective date of increases.
Through 1961, progression from minimum to maximum rates was in the form of automatic 5-cent-an-hour increases every 16
weeks. Employees receiving 6 to 9 cents below the maximum of the rate range had their wage rates increases to the maximum o f the
appropriate rate range at the end of the final 16-week period. The 1962 agreement changed the progression to automatic
5-cent-an-hour increases every 8 weeks in grades 1 through 5; 12 weeks in grades 6 through 10; and 16 weeks in grades 11 through 17.
Employees receiving 6 to 9 cents below the maximum of the rate range continued to have their wage rates increased to the maximum
of the appropriate range at the end of the specified time interval.
Before and after 1962, the company could grant individual merit increases more frequently than indicated. The minimum rate for
beginners was no less than 25 cents below the minimum of the rate range of the classification for which they were hired. Beginners’
rates were increased 5 cents an hour every 4 weeks until the minimum rate was reached.
2 Rates include the 12 cents an hour formerly paid as a cost-of-living allowance and the 10-cent-an-hour general wage change.
3 In the 1956 negotiations, numerical designations of the labor grades were reversed so that labor grade 1 became the lowest and 17
the highest paid. Former designations are shown in parentheses as Roman numerals.
4 These rates were effective Oct. 26, 195 3, by unilateral company action for workers who remained on the job or returned to work
during the strike.
5Rates include the 3 cents an hour formerly paid as a cost-of-living allowance and the 2.5-percent general wage change.
6 Labor grade 13 was established in March 1956 to cover a few classifications in labor grade 12 (formerly grade V) that had been
paid a premium rate 5 cents above the maximum. (Table 1, general wage increase of Oct. 23, 1950.)
7 Labor grade XVII merged with grade XVI in 1953. Los Angeles had no employees in grade XVII at the time.
'Rates reflect incorporation of the 15-cent cost-of-living allowance into basic rates and the general wage-rate changes which varied
from 2 to 11 cents, depending on labor grade. Minimum rates in certain labor grades also include additional increases ranging from 1 to
7 cents.
The May 19, 1958 agreement also reclassified the following jobs: Air-conditioning and refrigeration mechanics from grade 13 to 14
and janitors from grade 1 to 2. The following jobs were eliminated: Stationary engineers, high pressure-grade 13; coverers, fabric
layoutmen-grade 4; assemblers, aircraft (production)-grade 2; and installers, aircraft (production)-grade 2,
9
Rates reflect incorporation of 5 cents of the cost-of-living allowance into basic rates and increases in the minimum rates of grades
11, 12, 13, 1 6 ,and 17.
10 Rates reflect incorporation of the 7-^^^^t-of-living allowance into basic rates and the general wage-rate changes which varied
from 5 to 8 cents, depending upon labor
11 Rates reflect incorporation of the ll^ ^ H p st-of-livin g allowance into basic rates on this date and the general wage change of 8
cents an hour.
12 These job titles are typical occupations shown in the 1962 agreement which were upgraded in 1965. A total of 45 job
classifications were upgraded in 1965.
Effective date
Sept. 30,
19682
Labor grade and selected job titles
Grade OS3 -Machinists, research technician .........
Grade 17-Electricians, flight line checkout;
inspectors (major electronic systems; missile
preflight, electronics, senior; missile preflight,
mechanical, senior); machinists, maintenance;
mechanics (aircraft, electrical and electronic;
aircraft jet engine test; aircraft, major assembly;
flight line engine checkout; reactor assembly,
senior); patternmakers, metal and wood, senior;
tool and die makers, senior; toolmakers,
senior ......................................................................
Grade 16-Machinists (lathe; vertical turret lathe);
mechanics, machined p a r ts..................................
Grade 15-Inspectors, electronic test consoles,
final; mechanics, operational mockup, senior;
operators, vertical turret lathe, and setup men,
autom atic...............................................................
Grade 14-Electricians, missile final assembly
checkout; mechanics (training unit; reactor
assembly) ...............................................................
Grade 13-Mechanics (electrical and electronic,
e x p e r i m e n t a l ; stru c tu r a l assem b ly,
experimental; installation, experimental) .........
Grade 12-Electricians (flight line;4 final assembly
ch eck o u t, rock et en gin es); inspectors
(electronic receiving, senior; electronic testing;
ultrasonic); mechanics, flight line4 ....................
Grade 11-Operators (engine lathe, senior; turret
lathe, senior; vertical turret lathe); toolmakers;
tool and die makers .............................................
Grade 1 0 -Assemblers, training unit; diemakers,
PBT, senior; mechanics (powerplant; test
equipment); sealers and testers (cabin; tank,
senior) ...................................................................
Grade 9-Inspectors (material surfaces; aircraft
painting and sealing4); operators, contour roll,
senior4 ...................................................................
Grade 8 -Checkers, machined parts .........................
Grade 7 -In sp ecto rs (processing; electronic
assembly4); operators (turret lathe; forming
roll) ........................................................................
Grade 6-Diemakers, PBT; inspectors (electronic
receiving; shipping) .............................................
Grade 5 -Inspectors, receiving; utility men,
tooling ...................................................................
Grade 4 -Operators, contour roll; sorters and
classifiers, material; utility men, maintenance .
Grade 3-Attendants, garage service; inspectors,
utility; laborers; template m akers.......................
Grade 2-Janitors; utility men (general; machine
shop; paint and processing; plastics; sheet
metal) ...................................................................
Grade 1 -Preparation men, coil ................................
Oct. 5,
1969
Oct. 4,
1970
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
$4.31
$4.60
$4.45
$4.74
$4.64
$4.93
4.22
4.51
4.36
4.65
4.55
4.84
4.08
4.32
4.21
4.45
4.39
4.63
3.95
4.19
4.08
4.32
4.26
4.50
3.84
4.08
3.96
4.20
4.12
4.36
3.75
3.99
3.87
4.11
4.02
4.26
3.69
3.93
3.81
4.05
3.96
4.20
3.60
3.84
3.72
3.96
3.85
4.09
3.52
3.76
3.63
3.87
3.76
4.00
3.47
3.41
3.66
3.58
3.58
3.52
3.77
3.69
3.70
3.64
3.89
3.81
3.33
3.50
3.44
3.61
3.56
3.73
3.25
3.42
3.35
3.52
3.47
3.64
3.20
3.37
3.30
3.47
3.41
3.58
3.12
3.29
3.22
3.39
3.33
3.50
3.06
3.23
3.16
3.33
3.26
3.43
3.01
3.00
3.18
3.12
3.11
3.09
3.28
3.21
3.21
3.19
3.38
3.31
Effective date
Labor grade and selected job titles
183 -Machinists, research technician .......................
1 7 -E le c tr ic ia n s , flight operations, chief8;
inspectors (major electronic systems; missile
preflight, electronics, senior; missile preflight,
mechanical, senior); machinists, maintenance;
mechanics (aircraft/space vehicle, electrical and
e le c tr o n ic 9 ; aircraft jet engine test;
aircraft/space vehicle, major assembly9 ; flight
operations, chief10; reactor assembly, senior);
tooling building, wood1 1; tool and die makers,
senior; toolmakers, senior ..................................
1 6 -Machinists (lathe; vertical turret lathe);
mechanics, machined p a r ts..................................
15—Inspectors, electronic test consoles, final;
m ech an ics, operational mockup, senior;
operators, vertical turret lathe, and setup men,
autom atic...............................................................
14-Electricians, missile final assembly checkout;
mechanics (training unit; reactor assembly) . . .
1 3 -M e c h a n ic s (ele c tr ic a l and electronic,
e x p e r i m e n t a l ; stru c tu r a l assem b ly,
experimental; installation, experimental) .........
1 2 -E le c tr ic ia n s
(flight operations12; final
assem bly ch eck o u t, rocket engines13;
in sp ecto rs (electronic receiving, senior;
electronic testing; ultrasonic); mechanics, flight
operations14 ........................................................
1 1 -Operators (engine lathe, senior; turret lathe,
senior; vertical turret lathe); toolmakers; tool
and die m ak ers......................................................
1 0 - Assemblers, training unit; diemakers, PBT,
sen ior; m echanics (p o w erp la n t; test
equipment); sealers and testers (cabin; tank,
senior); operators, contour roll, senior15 .........
9 —Inspectors (material surfaces; aircraft painting
and sealing) ..........................................................
8-Checkers, machined parts ....................................
7—Inspectors (processing; electronic assembly)
operators (turret lathe; forming roll13) ...........
6 -D ie m a k e r s, PBT; inspectors (electronic
receiving; shipping) .............................................
5 -Inspectors, receiving; utility men, to o lin g .........
4-Operators, contour roll; sorters and classifiers,
material; utility men, m aintenance....................
3-Attendants, garage service; inspectors, utility;
laborers; template makers ..................................
2—Janitors; utility men (general; machine shop;
paint and processing; plastics; sheet metal) . . .
1 -Preparation men, coil ...........................................
Oct. 3,
1971s
Dec. 5,
1971s
Oct. 1,
1 9727
Sept. 30,
1973
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum
Maxi
mum
$4.98
$5.27
$5.14
$5.43
$5.51
$5.80
$5.68
$5.97
4.89
5.18
5.05
5.34
5.42
5.71
5.59
5.88
4.73
4.97
4.89
5.13
5.24
5.48
5.40
5.64
4.60
4.84
4.76
5.00
5.11
5.35
5.27
5.51
4.46
4.70
4.62
4.86
4.95
5.19
5.11
5.35
4.36
4.60
4.52
4.76
4.85
5.09
5.00
5.24
4.30
4.54
4.46
4.70
4.78
5.02
4.93
5.17
4.19
4.43
4.35
4.59
4.66
4.90
4.81
5.05
4.10
4.34
4.26
4.50
4.57
4.81
4.71
4.95
4.04
3.98
4.23
4.15
4.20
4.14
4.39
4.31
4.50
4.43
4.69
4.60
4.64
4.57
4.83
4.74
3.90
4.07
4.06
4.23
4.34
4.51
4.48
4.65
3.81
3.75
4.98
3.92
3.97
3.91
4.14
4.08
4.25
4.19
4.42
4.36
4.38
4.32
4.55
4.49
3.67
3.84
3.83
4.00
4.10
4.27
4.23
4.40
3.60
3.77
3.76
3.93
4.02
4.19
4.15
4.32
3.55
3.53
3.72
3.65
3.71
3.69
3.88
3.81
3.97
3.95
4.14
4.07
4.09
4.07
4.26
4.19
Effective date
Oct. 2,
1974*6
Labor grades and selected job titles
1 8 - Machinists, research technician .........................
17-Electricians, flight operations, chief; inspectors
(major electronic systems; missile/space vehicle
preflight, electronics, senior; missile/space
veh icle p reflig h t, mechanical, senior);
m a c h in is t s , m ain ten an ce; m echanics
(aircraft/space vehicle, electrical and electronic;
aircraft jet engine test; aircraft/space vehicle,
major assembly; flight operations, chief; reactor
assembly, senior); tooling builder, wood; tool
and diemakers, senior; toolmakers, senior . . . .
1 6 -Machinists (lathe; vertical turret lathe);
mechanics, machined p a r ts..................................
15-Inspectors, electronic test consoles, final;
m echanics, operational mockup, senior;
operators, vertical turret lathe and setup men,
automatic18 ..........................................................
14-Electricians, missile final assembly checkout;
mechanics (training unit; reactor assembly) . . .
1 3 -M ech a n ics (e le c tr ic a l and electronic,
e x p e r i m e n t a l ; stru ctu ra l assem b ly,
experimental; installation, experimental) .........
12 - Electricians, flight operations; inspectors
(electrical/electron ic receiving, senior19;
electronic testing; ultrasonic); mechanics, flight
operations .............................................................
11-Operators (engine lathe, senior; turret lathe,
senior; vertical turret lathe); tool and die
makers2 0; toolmakers ........................................
1 0 - A ssem blers, training unit; mechanics
(powerplant; test equipment); sealers and
testers (cabin; tank, senior); operators, contour
roll, senior .............................................................
9-Inspectors (material surfaces; aircraft painting
and sealing) ..........................................................
8-Checkers, machined parts ....................................
7-Inspectors (processing; electronic assembly);
operators, turret lathe ........................................
6 - Diemakers,
PBT;
inspectors
(electrical/electronic receiving19 ; shipping) . . .
5 -Inspectors, receiving; utility men, tooling .........
4 -Operators, contour roll; sorters and classifiers,
material; utility men, maintenance....................
3-Attendants, garage service; inspectors, utility;
laborers; template makers ..................................
2-Janitors; utility men (general; machine shop;
paint and processing; plastics; sheet metal) . . .
1 -Preparation men, coil ...........................................
Oct. 5,
1975
Oct. 3,
1976
Mini
mum17
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum1 7
Maxi
mum
Mini
mum1 7
Maxi
mum
$6.68
$6.97
$6.89
$7.18
$7.11
$7.40
6.59
6.88
6.80
7.09
7.01
7.30
6.39
6.63
6.59
6.83
6.79
7.03
6.26
6.50
6.46
6.70
6.66
6.90
6.09
6.33
6.28
6.52
6.48
6.72
5.98
6.22
6.17
6.41
6.36
6.60
5.91
6.15
6.09
6.33
6.28
6.52
5.78
6.02
5.96
6.20
6.15
6.39
5.68
5.92
5.86
6.10
6.04
6.28
5.60
5.53
5.79
5.70
5.77
5.70
5.96
5.87
5.95
5.88
6.14
6.05
4.48
5.61
4.48
5.78
4.48
5.95
4.38
4.32
5.51
5.44
4.38
4.32
5.68
5.60
4.38
4.32
5.85
5.77
4.23
5.35
4.23
5.51
4.23
5.68
4.15
5.27
4.15
5.43
4.15
5.59
4.09
4.07
5.21
5.14
4.09
4.07
5.37
5.29
4.09
4.07
5.53
5.45
1Rates do not reflect cost-of-living allowances in effect until incorporated into base rates. Cost-of-living allowances paid in addition
to these rates are shown in table 1. Progression from minimum to maximum rates was in the form of automatic 5-cent-an-hour
increases every 8 weeks for employees in grades 1 through 5; 12 weeks in grades 6 through 10; and 16 weeks in grades 11 through 18
(through 17 before Oct. 3, 1971). Employees receiving 6 to 9 cents below the maximum of the rate range had their wage rates
increased to the maximum at the end of the specified time interval. The company could grant merit increases more frequently. The
minimum rate for beginners was no less than 15 cents below the minimum of the rate range of the job classification for which they
were hired. Beginners’ rates were increased 5 cents an hour every 4 weeks until the minimum rate was reached.
2 Rates reflect incorporation of the 27-cent cost-of-living allowance into base rates on this date, and the general rate changes which
ranged from 12 to 33 cents, depending on labor grade.
3 Labor grade OS was established on Sept. 30, 1968, to cover Machinists, research technicians, as well as other classifications at
various off-site facilities. On Oct. 3 1971, the grade was redesignated labor grade 18.
4 Upgraded in 1968. A total of 13 jobs were upgraded in 1968.
5Rates reflect the 34-cent “overage” amount retroactive to Oct. 3, 1971 available under terms of the letter dated Oct. 11, 1968,
concerning the cost-of-living allowance.
6 Rates reflect incorporation into base rates of the accumulated 16-cent cost-of-living allowance.
7These rates reflect 12-to 17-cent wage increases originally scheduled for this date plus 14-to 20-cent an hour increases originally
scheduled to be effective Dec. 5, 1971 but deferred by the Pay Board to Oct. 1, 1972.
8 Shown as Electricians, flight line checkout before 1971 agreement.
9 Designation extended to cover space vehicles by 1971 agreement.
10 Shown asMechanics, flight line engine checkout before 1971 agreement.
11 Shown as Patternmakers, metal and wood, senior before 1971 agreement.
12 Shown as Electricians, flight line before 1971 agreement.
13 Eliminated by 1971 agreement.
14 Shown as Mechanics, flight line before 1971 agreement.
15 Upgraded from grade 9 by 1971 agreement.
16 Rates reflect incorporation of the 70-cent accumulated cost-of-living allowance into base rates in addition to 13-to 18-cent wage
increases and 12-cent cost-of-living “travel” adjustment (see table 1).
17Effective Nov. 17, 1974, minimums for grades 1 through 7 applied only to those hired or rehired on or after such date and did not
apply to incumbents or those with reinstatement rights on the effective date. The minimums for grades 1 through 7 were to be retained
through the 1974 agreement.
18 “And setup men” eliminated from designation by 1974 agreement.
19 “Electrical” added to designation by 1974 agreement.
2 0Workers formerly designated Diemakers, PBT, senior included in designation by 1974 agreement.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Shift premium pay
July 18,1941
................................
Mar. 3, 1943 (Directive Order of
the NWLB of Mar. 3, 1943).
Oct. 24,1949 ................................
Mar. 19, 1956 (by agreement of
Mar. 15, 1956).
Oct. 6 , 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Oct. 5, 1975 (agreement dated
Nov. 17, 1974).
5-cent-an-hour premium pay for
work on second and third
shifts plus 8 hours’ pay for 6 V2
hours’ work on third shift.
Increased to: 6 cents an hour.
Increased to: 8 cents an hour.
Increased to: 12 cents an hour for
work on second shift.
Increased to: 18-cent-an-hour premium for work on second
shift and 14-cent-an-hour pre
mium on third shift.
Increased to: 25-cent-an-hour premium for work on second
shift.
Overtime pay
July 18, 1941 ...............................
Time and one-half for work over
8 hours a day or 40 hours a
week.
Oct. 6 , 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Time and one-half for work after 6 V2 hours a day or 32V2
hours a week for third-shift employees on a 6 y2-hour
schedule.
Added: Cost-of-living allowance included in computing
overtime pay for employees on third shift, to bring the
contract in line with practice.
Premium pay for Saturday and Sunday
July 18, 1941 ................................
Double time for work on Sunday.
...........................
Changed to: Double time only for
7th consecutive day worked.
Changed to: Double time for
work on Sunday as such.
Sept. 1 8 ,19422
May 1,1946 ..................................
Aug. 21, 1947 ................................
June 5, 1960 (agreement of same
date).
Added: Time and one-half for
work on Saturday where lack
of work brought employee’s
workweek below 40 straighttime hours.
Changed to: Time and one-half
for work on shifts starting on
Saturday.
Not applicable to employees working on normal 7-day
operations, who were paid double time for hours
worked on second regular day off. Time and one-half
also paid for Saturday work following a holiday in the
same week.
Not applicable to employees working on normal 7-day
operations, who were paid double time for hours
worked on second regular day off.
Not applicable to employees working on normal 7-day
operations, who were paid time and one-half for work
on the first regular day off.
Holiday pay
July 1 8 ,19412 .............................
May 1, 1946 ..................................
Double time for work on 6 holi
days. No pay for holidays not
worked.
Changed to: 4 paid holidays es
tablished, paid for at regular
rate. Double time (total) for
work on 6 holidays.
Holidays were: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of
July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Holidays were: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Labor
Day, and Christmas.
Employee had to work first scheduled workday after
holiday for holiday compensation.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Holiday pay-Continued
Added: 1 paid holiday (total, 8).
Holidays added: Memorial Day and Thanksgiving.
Added: If any paid holiday fell on Saturday, the company
had option of scheduling or not scheduling work on the
preceding Friday; however, Saturday to be observed as
the holiday and paid for as such. (Previously no pay
provided for holidays not worked falling on Saturday.)
Holiday added: Last regular workday before Christmas.
Changed: Holidays falling on Sunday to be observed on
following Monday.
Changed to: Holidays falling on Saturday to be observed
and paid for on the preceding Friday.
Holiday was: Friday after Thanksgiving.
Added: 1 paid holiday (total, 9).
Changed: Double time plus 8 hours holiday pay for work
on 8 holidays.
Last regular workday before New Year’s Day.
Aug. 21,1947 ................................
Dec. 15, 195 33 (by agreement of
same date).
Added: 2 paid holidays (total, 6).
May 19,1958 (agreement of same
date).
Added: 1 paid holiday (total, 7).
June 5, 1960 (agreement of same
date).
July 22, 1962 (agreement dated
Sept. 30,1962).
Sept. 30, 1962 (agreement of
same date).
Oct. 10,1965 (agreement of same
date).
Oct. 6, 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Dec. 24, 1971 (agreement dated
Dec. 5,1971).
Nov. 17, 1974 (agreement of
same date).
Added: 1 paid holiday (total, 10).
E stab lish ed : Christmas-New
Y ear’s shutdown increased
paid holidays to 11 (was 10)
in each of first 2 years of
contract and to 12 in third
year of contract. Double time
plus 8 hours’ holiday pay for
work on shutdown holiday (as
for other holidays).
Changed: Christmas-New Year’s
shutdown period holidays
scheduled to provide 22 such
paid holidays under 1974 con
tract instead of 19 as under
previous contract. (See op
posite paragraph for schedule
of Christmas-New Year’s holi
days).
Holiday was: December 23 in 1968, December 26 in 1969,
and December 23 in 1970.
Added: Worker to receive holiday pay for holidays falling
in a period of temporary layoff.
In addition to the 5 basic holidays of Memorial Day,
Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the
Day after Thanksgiving Day, the Christmas-New Year’s
shutdown periods were as follows:
1st period-Dec. 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, 1971;
2nd period-Dec. 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29, 1972, and Jan. 1,
1973;and
3rd period-Dec. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 31, 1973, and Jan.
1,1974.
In addition to 5 basic holidays (those outside ChristmasNew Year’s period) Christmas-New Year’s holidays were
as follows:
1st period-Dec. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, and 31, 1974 and
Jan. 1, 1975;
2nd period-Dec. 24, 2 5 ,2 6 , 29, 30, and 31, 1975 and Jan.
1 and 2,1976; and
3rd period-Dec. 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, 1976.
Changed: Employee had to work last scheduled workday
before or first scheduled workday after holiday (pre
viously had to work first scheduled workday after
holiday) to be compensated for holiday. Since Sept. 30,
1962, eligibility rule could be waived for compelling
reasons.
Paid vacations
July 18,1941 ...............................
Mar. 3, 1943 (Directive Order of
NWLB of Mar. 3,1943).
Aug. 21,1947 ...............................
40 hours’ pay in lieu of vacation
after 1 year of continuous
service.
Changed to: 40 hours’ vacation
with pay after 1 year of con
tinuous service.
Increased to: 80 hours’ vacation
with pay after 1 year of con
tinuous service.
If not used during the second year, balance of vacation
credit was payable to employee at end of second year.
Paid to employee at the beginning of the second year.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Paid Vacation-Continued
Vacation allowance prorated because of death, layoff
(except for probationary employees), inability to meet
company medical standards, entry into Armed Forces,
and medical leaves of absence over 6 months.
Oct. 24,1949 (agreement of same
date).
Dec. 15, 195 33 (by agreement of
same date).
Mar. 19, 1956 (by agreement of
Mar. 15,1956).
Sept. 30, 1962 (agreement of
same date).
Oct. 10,1965 (agreement of same
date).
Added: Additional 40 hours’ va
cation with pay after 15 years’
accumulated service (total,
120 hours).
Changed to: 120 hours’ vacation
with pay after 15 years’ ac
cumulated service or 12 years’
uninterrupted service.
Changed to: 2 weeks’ paid vaca
tion for employees with 1 but
less than 10 years’ uninter
rupted service, 3 weeks for 10
but less than 20 years, and 4
weeks for 20 years or more.
Eliminated: Requirement that
years of accumulated service
be used in determining length
of vacation.
Oct. 6, 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Dec. 5, 1971 (agreement of same
date).
Added: Vacation allowance prorated because of normal,
early, or disability retirement.
Continuous service included those periods from the em
ployee’s most recent hiring in which he was paid for
performing work for the company. Time spent on
formal leave over 60 days was not counted.
Uninterrupted service was service from the employee’s most
recent hiring date with the company.
Accumulated service included all periods when the em
ployee was paid for performing work for the company,
was laid off, or was on leave of absence.
Added: Shift premiums included in computation of vaca
tion allowance.
Added: Vacation allowance prorated for employees who
have reached anniversary date (a) with less than full year
of continuous service since last anniversary or hire date
or (b) after having received a prorated vacation and sick
leave allowance since last anniversary or hire date.
Added: Cost-of-living allowance included in computation of
vacation pay.
Added: Continuous service included temporary layoff
periods.
Paid sick leave
July 18, 1941 ................................
Mar. 3, 1943 (Directive Order of
NWLB of Mar. 3, 1943).
Aug. 21,1947 ................................
Oct. 24,1949 (agreement of same
date).
Sept. 30, 1962 (agreement of
same date).
Oct. 10,1965 (agreement o f same
date).
No provisions for paid sick leave.
56 hours’ annual sick leave credit
after 1 year of continuous
service.
Reduced to: 40 hours’ annual
sick leave credit after 1 year
of continuous service.
If not used during the second year, balance of sick leave
credit was payable to employee at the end of the second
year.
Sick leave allowance paid simultaneously with vacation
allowance.
Sick leave allowance prorated because of death, layoff
(except for probationary employees), inability to meet
company medical standards, entry into Armed Forces,
and medical leaves of absence over 6 months.
Added: Sick leave allowance prorated because of normal,
early, or disability retirement.
Added: Sick leave prorated for employees who have
reached anniversary date with less than a full year of
continuous service since last anniversary date.
Added: Sick leave allowance prorated for employees who
have reached anniversary date (a) with less than full year
of continuous service since last anniversary or hire date
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Paid sick leave—Continued
Oct. 10, 1965 (agreement of same
date).-Continued
or (b) after having received a prorated vacation and sick
leave allowance since last anniversary or hire date.
Added: Shift premiums included in computation of sick
leave allowance.
Added: Cost-of-living allowance included in computation of
sick leave allowance.
Added: Continuous service included temporary layoff
periods.
Oct. 6, 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Dec. 5, 1971 (agreement of same
date).
Reporting time pay
July 18, 1941 ...............................
Oct. 24, 1949 ................................
Minimum of 4 hours’ work or 2
hours’ pay guaranteed em
ployees not notified of lack of
work.
Changed to: Minimum of 4 hours’
work or pay.
Not applicable if lack of work was beyond control of
management.
Not applicable if lack of work was beyond control of
management.
Rest periods
July 18, 1941 ...............................
No provision for paid rest peri
ods.
F e b .11,1943 ................................
Oct. 24, 1949 ................................
Two 10-minute paid rest periods
per shift.
Two 10-minute paid rest periods per shift provided by
company practice.
Included in collective bargaining agreement.
Added: Employees working overtime observed the rest
periods applicable to the shift on which they were then
working.
Oct. 6, 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Flight pay
Oct. 24,1949 (agreement of same
date).
Oct. 6, 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Established: Weekly premium of
20 times basic hourly rate
paid flight line employee who
regularly flies in company air
craft in work performance.
Changed: Employee assigned to
in-flight work operations in
connection with test oj ac
ceptance operations received
flight pay for time in flight
(wheels o ff’ to wheels on) of
$10 for 1st hour or fraction
thereof and $5 for each sub
sequent one-half hour or frac
tion thereof.
Jury duty pay
Mar. 19, 1956 (by agreement of
Mar. 15, 1956).
Employees who performed jury
duty on a regularly scheduled
workday received straighttime pay4 less jury duty fees.
Allowance limited to 25 days in any 2-year period.
First-shift employee required to report for work if excused
from jury service in time to perform at least 3 hours’
work during his regular shift.
Second-shift employee excused from jury service by 1 p.m.
to work first half of his regular shift.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Jury duty pay—Continued
Mar. 19, 1965 (by agreement of
Mar. 15, 1956).-Continued
First-shift employee who reported for jury examination on
a regularly scheduled workday received 4 hours’ pay at
straight-time rate and was excused from work for
maximum of 4 hours.
Added: Employee on temporary layoff eligible for juryexamination or jury-duty pay.
Nov. 17, 1974 (agreement of
same date).
Bereavement pay
Oct. 10, 1965 (agreement of same
date).
Established: Up to 3 days’ paid
leave for absence due to death
of member in immediate fami
ly.
Oct. 6, 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Immediate family included spouse, parent, parent of
current spouse, child, brother, or sister.
Added: Definition of immediate family now to include
stepparent, stepparent of current spouse, stepchild,
stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, and half sister.
Added: To definition of immediate family-grandparents.
Added: Employee on temporary layoff eligible for bereave
ment pay.
Nov. 17, 1974 (agreement of
same date).
Short-term military duty pay
Oct. 6, 1968 (agreement of same
date).
Established: $10 a day for up to
14 days in any calendar year.
July 18, 1941
Life insurance-$2,000.
A ccid en t and health insur
a n c e -$14 a week for maxi
mum of 13 weeks (maternity
benefits, up to 6 weeks).
Hospital expenses-$4 a day, up
to 70 days (maternity bene
fits, up to 14 days).
Special hospital services-up to
$20 (same for maternity bene
fit).
Surgical insurance-up to $150
(maternity benefits up to
$ 100 ).
Changed to: H ospital expenses-$7 a day up to 31
days (maternity benefits, up
to 14 days).
Special hospital services-up to
$25 if no charge made for
operating room. Up to $50 if
charge made for operating
room (maternity benefits, up
to $25).
Added: Insurance for accidental
death
or d is m e m b e r m ent-$2,000.
For U.S. Armed Forces reservists who have 1 year of
company service and are required to perform short-term
active military duty.
Insurance benefits
July 1, 1946
Group insurance plan was in effect several years before July
18, 1941. Not included in union agreements. Employee
contribution, $1.97 monthly; remainder of cost borne
by company. Applied to enrolled employees only;
dependents not covered.
Employee monthly contribution increased to $2.47; remainder of cost borne by company,
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-Continued
Dec. 1, 1946
Nov. 1, 1948
Jan. 1, 1950
Jan. 1, 1951
Mar. 3, 1953
Jan. 1, 1954 (by agreement of
Dec. 15, 1953).
A ccidental and health insur
ance-discontinued because of
C alifornia Unemployment
Compensation Disability Law.
Changed to: Special hospital services-up to $50 whether or
not charge was made for oper
ating room (maternity bene
fits, up to $50).
Changed to: H ospital ex
penses-$8 a day up to 31
days (maternity benefits, up
to 14 days).
Special hospital services-up to
$120. (Same for maternity
benefits.)
Surgical insurance-up to $225
(maternity benefits, up to
$112.50).
Added: Hospital and surgicalcoverage for dependents of
insured employees.
Added: Medical expense in
su ra n ce-(fo r insured em
ployees and dependents), up
to $2 for each treatment at a
doctor’s office; $3 for each
treatment elsewhere. Benefits
commenced on first visit for
sickness. Maximum, $150
during any 12-month period.
Added: Polio myelitis insujancereimbursement for hospitaliza
tion and other covered ex
penses incurred within 2 years
of contraction of disease, up
to $5,000 for employee and
each dependent.
Increased to: L ife insurance-$5,000.
Accidental death or dismemberm ent-$5,000.
Hospital expenses-up to 70 days
(m a tern ity b e n e fits un
changed, up to 14 days).
Special hospital services-up to
$120 plus 75 percent of next
$1,200 (maximum of $1,020).
Maternity benefits unchanged,
up to $120.
Surgical insurance-up to $350
(maternity benefits increased,
up to $175).
Employee monthly contribution reduced to $2.05.
Plan' incorporated in union agreement for first time.
Employee monthly contribution remained at $2.05;
remainder of cost borne by company.
Dependents received same benefits as employees except
that maternity benefits were not prpvided for depen
dents.
Employee monthly contribution remained at $2.05; re
mainder of cost borne by company. One treatment
allowed a day.
Put into effect during term of agreement.
Employee monthly contribution remained at $2.05; re
mainder of cost borne by company.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-(Continued
May 1, 1956 (by agreement of
Mar. 15,1956).
Aug. 1, 1958 (agreement dated
May 19,1958).
Aug. 1, 1960 (agreement dated
June 5, 1960).
Added: Supplemental nonoccupational accident insurance-up
to $300 for expenses incurred
within 90 days of injury and
not otherwise payable by the
basic plan for employees and
dependents.
S p ecial h o sp ita l se r v ic e sincreased to maximum of
$240 for employees only
(m a tern ity b e n e fits un
changed). Eliminated for em
ployees only: Provision for
reimbursement of part of ex
penses over $120. Provisions
continued for dependents.
A dded: E xcess C overagePayment for employees only,
of 80 percent of medical,
surgical, hospital, and other
designated expenses incurred
during any 1 period o f nonoccupational sickness or in
jury over $100 and any other
benefits payable under the
basic plan or any other plan.
Maximum excess coverage
benefits for all injuries or sick
nesses, $5,000.
Added: Special hospital services
and excess coverage-extended
to dependents, with benefits
and limitations same as for
employees. $240 applicable to
hospital
c o n fin e m e n ts
whether or not employees had
enrolled for added dependent
coverage.
In fan t coverage-Medical and
surgical complications to be
covered for infants under 15
days of age.
Increased to: Hospital expenses(room and board), maximum
of $24 a day (maternity bene
fits up to $12 a day) reduced
by benefits ($12 a day up to
20 days) paid under California
Unemployment Compensation
Disability Benefits Act.
Special hospital services-up to
$480. Maternity benefits un
changed.
If $1,000 or more total benefits have been paid, full
maximum of $5,000 can be reinstated on date the
insurance company accepts, as satisfactory, evidence of
complete recovery and insurability. Not applicable in
maternity cases except for severe medical or surgical
complications.
Employee to contribute additional $2 a month for depen
dents’ special hospital services and excess coverage and
infant coverage (total $4.05); remainder of cost, if any,
to be borne by company.
Employee contribution remained $2.05 per month ($4.05
with dependent coverage); remainder of cost borne by
company.
When private room was used, maximum daily benefits
limited to hospital’s most common daily semiprivate
room rate, but not to exceed $24 a day.
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Effective date
Insurance benefits-CContinued
Nov. 1, 1960 (letter dated Nov.
23, 1960).
Added: For retirees and depen
dents, as follows:
Hospital expenses—(room and
board), maximum of $24 a
day up to 70 days, reduced
by benefits ($12 a day up
to 20 days) paid under
California Unemployment
Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Special hospital services-up
to $480.
In-hospital medical benefits$3 for each doctor’s visit
up to 70.
Surgical
$350.
Jan. 1, 1963 (agreement dated
Sept. 30,1962).
insurance-up
to
S u p p lem en tal nonoccupa
tional accident insuranceup to $300 for expenses
incurred within 90 days of
injury and not otherwise
payable by the basic plan.
Excess coverage-payment of
80 percent of medical, sur
gical, hospital, and other
designated expenses in
curred during any one pe
riod of sickness or injury
over $100 and any other
benefits payable under the
basic plan. Maximum ex
cess coverage benefits for
all injuries or sickness,
$5,000.
For employees and dependents:
Increased to: Hospital benefits-Room and boardMaximum of $32 a day^for
120 days (was $24 for 70
days). Employee benefits
reduced by payment under
the California Unemploy
ment Compensation Dis
ability Law. Maternity
benefits unchanged.
Special hospital expenses-No
maximum during compen
sated hospitalization (was
$480). Maternity benefits
unchanged.
Retiree’s monthly contributions: Self only, $5.50; self and
dependents, $13.50; remainder of cost, above any
dividends paid by insurance carrier, to be borne by
company.
Plan benefits available only for nonoccupational sickness or
injury excluding pregnancy, childbirth, and connected
complications.
For surgery performed during hospital confinement, maxi
mum benefit to be greater of: $3 times number of days
for which hospital expense benefits were paid, up to 70
(a) excluding day of operation and subsequent days of
confinement due to operation or (b) less the amount
paid for surgical operation.
In addition to surgical benefits, up to $10 paid for the
actual charge for general anesthesia administered for an
operation performed outside hospital.
Plan to pay 50 percent (instead of 80 percent) of expenses
incurred for psychiatric treatments or consultations
while not confined to a hospital or similar institution.
$5,000 maximum benefit reduced by excess coverage
benefits (that have not been reinstated) paid under plan
for active employees for expenses incurred before
beneficiary came under retirees’ plan, but not less than
$2,500.
Reduced: Employee monthly contributions for self only, to
$1 (was $2.05); for self and dependents, to $2.50 (was
$4.05). Remainder of cost borne by company.
Up to 70 days for a mental or nervous disorder or for
pulmonary tuberculosis.
Definition of dependents to include specified children up to
age 23.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-Continued
Jan. 1, 1963 (agreement dated
Sept. 30, 1962).-Continued
Surgical bene fits-Surgical
schedule-M axim um of
$825 (was $350).
Medical benefits-Doctor’s ser
vices-$5 a day (was $3
under medical expenses in
surance) for up to 120
hospital visits.
Major medical (was excess
coverage)-deductible re
duced to $50 (was $100),
m axim um benefits in
creased to $5,000 in calen
dar year, $10,000 in life
time (was $5,000).
Added: Medical benefits—
Diagnostic X-ray and labo
ratory examinations-up to
$100 during any 12 con
secutive months.
F o r d ep en d en t w iv e s Added-surgical benefitsObstetrical services—up to
$175.
June 25, 1965
Suspended: Hospital benefits
under California Unemploy
ment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act. Company ar
ranged equivalent private cov
erage for employees in group
insurance plan to cover period
of suspension.
Reinstated: Hospital benefits
under California Unemploy
ment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Oct. 1, 1965
Oct. 11, 1965 (agreement of Oct.
10, 1965).
Not available for examinations required for dental or
maternity cases or disabilities for which hospital bene
fits were provided.
Applicable to pregnancies commencing while female em
ployee or dependent wife was insured.
Reduced: Retiree’s monthly contribution for self only to
$4; for self and dependents to $10. Remainder of cost
borne by company.
May 1, 1963
Apr. 1, 1965
Limited to nonmaternity services.
In effect and continued: For surgery, maximum benefits to
be greater of (a) $5 times number of days for which
hospital expenses were paid up to day of surgery
(maximum 120 days), or (b) $5 times total number of
days for which hospital expenses were paid, minus
surgeon’s fees.
Changed: Life insurance and ac
cidental death and dismember
ment, to company paid. Bene
fits increased to $7,500.
Added: Survivor income benefit
insurance, providing: Transi
tion b enefits-$100 a month,
for up to 24 months, to eli
gible survivor of employee, or
of permanently and totally
Benefits made retroactive to April 1, 1965.
Added: Employee on early retirement permitted to con
tinue $1,000 life insurance by paying 50 cents a month
to age 65.
Added: Supplemental life and accidental death and dis
memberment insurance-employee could elect, by con
tributing $1.25 a month, an additional $2,500 coverage.
Eligible survivors included, in order of priority and suc
cession, class-(a) widow, if married to employee for
at least 1 year before his death; (b) widower, if an
unmarried child under age 21 was dependent on him for
principal support, or if employee’s income was 50
percent or more of combined income of husband and
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-Continued
Oct. 11, 1965 (agreement of Oct.
10, 1965).-Continued
disabled pensioner aged 60 or
under who died while life and
accident insurance was in
force.
wife during preceding calendar year; (c) unmarried child
under 21 years of age; (d) parent of employee who
received at least 50 percent of support from employee
during calendar year preceding employee’s death.
If no eligible survivors in class a or b qualified for benefits
and more than one in class c or d qualified, the monthly
payment was divided equally among them.
Bridge benefits-$100 a month
paid to eligible spouse aged 50
but less than 60 at employee’s
death, beginning after age 52
and termination of transition
benefits until the earliest of:
(1) remarriage; (2) age 62, or a
lower age at which full
widow’s or widower’s insur
ance benefit or old age sur
vivor’s insurance benefit be
came available under social
security; (3) death; or (4) for
widower who had qualified
because of dependent children
when he ceased to have emPlo y e e ’s unmarried child
(under 21) dependent on him
for principal support.
Nov. 1, 1965 (agreement of Oct.
10, 1965).
Dec. 1, 1965 (agreement of Oct.
10,1965).
For employees and dependents:
Increased to: Hospital benefits-Room and boardMaximum of 365 days.
Changed to:
S u r g i c a l b e n e f it s - N e w
schedule o f maximum
allowances with no per
disability maximums.
Medical benefits-Doctors’ services-365 hospital visits at
$5 a day ($1,825).
Eliminated:
Medical benefits-Diagnostic
X-ray and laboratory exam inations-$100 maxi
mum benefit.
Benefits to be based on new
schedule of allowances.
Changed: For retirees and depen
d en ts, as follows: Major
Medical-Deductable reduced
to $50; hospital room and
board charges increased to
maximum of $32 a day; from
medical expense period to cal
endar year basis.
Eliminated: Monthly contribution for insurance for em
ployees and retirees.
Changed: Definition of dependent broadened to include (a)
dependent children under 25 and (b) husbands, sup
ported by female employees, totally disabled for 6
months or more.
Changed: Company to pay full cost of hospital, medical,
and surgical expense insurance for laid-off employees
who were eligible for extended layoff benefits at the
rate of 2 months for each year of qualifying service, up
to a maximum of 12 months.
Applicable to retirees and their dependents who were
insured immediately before Dec. 1, 1965, and to those
retiring thereafter, except new hospital benefits to apply
to confinements starting after Nov. 30,1965.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-(Continued
July 1, 1966 (agreement of Oct.
10, 1965).
For employees over age 65 and
dependents: Benefits payable
under plan integrated with and
reduced by benefits available
under Social Security Medical
Care Act.
Oct. 7, 1968 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
Increased: Transition survivor in
come benefit-to $150 a
month for up to 24 months
for qualified survivors who are
not eligible for an unreduced
Old-Age, Survivors, or Disabil
ity Insurance Benefit under
the Federal Social Security
Act. (For those who are eli
g ib le, monthly transition
benefits remain at $100.)
Increased: Bridge survivor income
benefit-to $150 a month,
paid to eligible spouse age 50
but less than 60 at employee’s
death, commencing on the
first day of the calendar
month following the month
for which the 24th transition
survivor income benefit pay
ment is made, provided, how
ever, that no benefit shall be
payable to a surviving widow
who is eligible to receive
Mother’s Insurance Benefits
under the Federal Social
Security Act or to survivors
eligible for full Widow’s or
Widower’s Insurance Benefits
or Old-Age Insurance Benefits
under the Social Security Act.
Increased: Contributory supple
mental life insurance for em
ployees-varying from $5,000
for employees earning less
than $2.89 an hour to
$20,000 for those earning
$5.77 and over.5
Dec. 1, 1968 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
Jan. 1, 1969 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
For employees and dependents:
Increased: Hospital room and
board benefits-to full pay
ment of reasonable charge
(not more than semiprivate
room rate) for up to 365
Company to pay statutory $3 contribution for eligible
active employees and their dependents. Retiree to pay
$3 statutory contribution. Benefits for employees re
tired before July 1, 1966, similarly reduced by
Medicare, whether or not the retiree was paying the $3
contribution.
Changed: Plan extended to include all retirees not pre
viously insured.
Major medical and hospital benefits limited to confine
ments commencing on or after July 1, 1966.
Changed: Definition of Class B and C survivors-Class B
widower, but only if married to employee at least 1 year
immediately before her death; Class C - child of
deceased employee who is both unmarried and (1)
under 21 years of age, or (2) at least 21 but under age
25, or (3) totally and permanently disabled at any age
over 21; providing, however, that a child under (2) or
(3) must have been legally residing with and dependent
upon the employee at the time of his death.
A class of survivors will qualify for benefits only when no
eligible survivor remains in any of the preceding classes.
Includes maternity confinement: Benefits apply only to
pregnancies terminating after Jan. 1, 1969, provided
pregnancy did not exist as of Oct. 7, 1968.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-Continued
Jan. 1, 1969 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).-Continued
days, reduced in California
by hospital benefits ($12 a
day, 20 days) under Cali
fornia Unemployment In
surance Code.
Added: Full payment for hos
pital nursery care of new
born child.
Added: Convalescent and
night care benefits-full
payment of reasonable
charge for room and board
(not more than semiprivate
room rate) and services by
an approved facility for
convalescent and long-term
illness care or night care
center.
Added: Outpatient mental
health services-full pay
ment of prevailing fee
(maximum of $400 per in
dividual per year) for ser
vices furnished by an ap
proved outpatient psy
chiatric facility and for
psychiatric services pro
vided and billed for by a
physician, subject to cer
tain terms and limitations.
Increased: Medical and sur
gical benefits-to full pay
ment of doctors’ services
(but not more than the
prevailing fee as deter
mined by insurance com
pany).
Increased: Medical benefitsschedule of allowances for
diagnostic X-ray and labo
ratory examinations.
Eliminated: Additional acci
dent expense and polio
myelitis expense insurance.
Added: Surviving spouse cov
er a g e-n o n co n trib u to ry
hospital, surgical, medical,
major medical, and diag
nostic X-ray and labora
tory examination benefits
for surviving spouse and
dependents, if spouse eligi
ble for benefits under Re
tirement Plan.
Each 2 days for which convalescent facility or night care
benefits are payable are equivalent to 1 day of hospital
confinement.
Doctors’ services included: surgical; obstetrical (including
prenatal and postnatal care and certain related labo
ratory services); services (other than surgical or obstet
rical) provided in a hospital or convalescent facility ; up
to two visits a week in a convalescent facility; anesthesia
services; emergency first aid (up to $25); radiological
therapeutic services; consultation services while con
fined in hospital or convalescent facility; and technical
surgical assistance.
For hospital confinement commencing and medical services
received on and after the date individual becomes
insured. Benefits payable until death or remarriage of
spouse.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-CContinued
June 1, 1970 (agreement dated
Feb. 13,1970).
E stablished: Noncontributory
dental plan for employees and
dependents. Benefits subject
to $25 deductible per patient
per calendar year ($75 maxi
mum deductible per family
per year), and plan pays 75
percent of balance for basic
services and 50 percent of
balance for prosthodontics;
maximum of $600 per patient
per calendar year.
Dec. 5, 1971 (agreement of same
date).
Oct. 1, 1972 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
For employees and dependents:
Added: Hemodialysis service,
on an outpatient basis, in
an approved hospital out
patient department or he
modialysis center, or under
certain conditions in pa
tient’s home.
Increased: Psychological test
ing benefit improved to
pay 100 percent (was 85
Company pays $9.26 a month per covered employee to
finance the plan.
Deductible not applicable to fee for “cleaning” once in any
6-month period.
Payment is based upon the usual, customary, and reason
able fee for services performed by a participating
memoer dentist. For services of a nonmember dentist,
piyment is based upon the usual, customary, and
reasonable fee, but not to exceed certain amounts as
specified by the plan.
Employees who have 3 months of continous service and are
insured under the Hospital-Surgical-Medical Expense
Benefit Program are eligible for the plan. Their depen
dents who meet certain eligibility requirements are also
covered. Retirees and their dependents are excluded.
The following limitations apply: (1) If patient selects a
more expensive plan of treatment than is customarily
provided, plan pays only the applicable percentage of
the lesser fee; (2) payment is made for replacement of
existing dentures only if unsatisfactory and cannot be
made satisfactory; prosthodontic appliances will be
replaced only after 5 years have elapsed following any
prior provisions of such appliances under any California
Dental Service plan.
The plan excludes: (1) All orthodontic services; (2)
prosthodontic services or appliances started before the
date patient became eligible under the plan; (3) services
for congenital malformations or cosmetic surgery or
dentistry; (4) services which are compensable under
Workmen’s Compensation or Employer’s Liability Laws,
services provided by Federal or State government
agencies, or those provided without cost by any
municipality, county, or other political subdivision; and
(5) services covered under the employers’ HospitalSurgical-Medical Expense Benefit Plan.
Changed: Hospital-surgical-medical coverage continued to
be provided at company expense for laid off employees
(and their dependents) for the remainder of month
layoff occurs and month following; for employees (and
their dependents) laid off on or after Oct. 1, 1971,
additional months of coverage provided, ranging from 1
to 6 months, depending on years of seniority at layoff.6
Changed: The hospital benefit period of 365 days (70 days
in a night care center) was not reduced because of
benefits received in an approved facility for con
valescent and long-term illness care.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-Continued
Oct. 1, 1972 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).-Continued
percent) of prevailing fee
and increased maximum of
$50 (was $38.50) per per
son in any calendar year.
Increased: Schedule of allow
ances for diagnostic X-ray
and laboratory expenses to
maximum of $10 (was $6)
in California for any exam
ination or procedure.
Increased: Transition survivor in
com e benefit-to $175 a
month.
Increased: Bridge survivor income
benefit--to $175 a month (the
dependent survivor age re
quirement also was reduced to
age 48).
For employees and dependents:
Increased: Major medicalmaximum benefit for any
person for all injuries or
sickness to $7,500 in a
calendar year and $15,000
lifetime.
For retirees and dependents:
Increased: Major medicalmaximum to $10,000.
R educed: Major medicaldeductible to $25 in a cal
endar year (retirees and
dependents).
Mar. 1, 1973 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
Nov. 17, 1974 (agreement of
same date).
Jan. 1, 1975 (agreement dated
Nov. 17,1974).
Added: Survivor benefit extended to dependent survivors
of deceased employees who retired with a disability
benefit under the retirement plan beginning on or after
Oct. 1, 1972 and continued while he received disability
benefit until age 65.
Added: A Class A or Class B eligible survivor could waive
either transition or bridge benefits for any month or
months. In the event of death of such survivor,
payments of transition benefit for rest of period
(excluding period for which waiver applied) were made
to the next eligible Class C or Class D survivor.
The $10,000 maximum was reduced by excess coverage
benefits (that have not been reinstated) paid under plan
for active employees for expenses incurred before
beneficiary came under retirees’ plan, but not less than
$5,000.
Added: Coordination of benefits provision under insurance
plan for retirees, provided the retiree did not contribute
50 percent or more of the premium charged for health
care benefits if he worked for another employer.
For employees and dependents:
Increased: Dental plan to pay
80 percent of dentist’s fee
(remained 50 percent for
prosthodontics).
Eliminated: The dental de
ductible of $25.
Added: Benefits coordinated with those provided by other
plans to prevent duplication for laid off and retired
employees or their dependents.
Changed (transferred from pension plan): Company to pay
$6.70 a month for retiring employees (and $6.70 for
their eligible spouses) towards reimbursement of Medi
care Part B premium.
Increased: Company to pay$6.70 a month towards reim
bursement of Medicare Part B premium for active
employees and their spouses age 65 or over and disabled
employees under age 65 enrolled in Medicare Part B.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Insurance benefits-CContinued
Aug. 1, 1975 (agreement dated
Nov. 17,1974).
Added: Option to select prepaid
dental program for employees
and dependents which covers
most common dental proce
dures such as diagnostic, pre
ventative (including space
maintainers), oral surgery,
restoration, and periodontic
services without charge and,
for a small surcharge, such
procedures as prosthetic den
tistry, crowns and root canal
therapy (maximum annual
surcharge, $100 per person).
Company paid full cost of program and services were to be
provided at plan dental offices, except emergency
services would be provided for if more than 50 miles
from plan dental office (up to $25).
Disability benefit plan (or voluntary unemployment compensation disability plan)
Jan. 1, 1951 (agreement of Oct.
23, 1950).
Jan. 1,1952
Jan. 1,1954
Jan. 1, 1956
Jan. 1, 1958
Jan. 1, 1960
Unemployment disability benefits-up to $40 a week for
maximum of 26 weeks for
each disability, plus $8 for
each 24 hours in hospital,
with a maximum of 12 days in
1 year. Benefits began on 1st
day for accident and 8th day
for sickness unless 24 hours or
more of hospital confinement
was necessary earlier.
Increased: Nonoccupational ac
cident and sickness benefitsmaximum of $30 a week, up
to 26 weeks.
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum of $35 a week, up
to 26 weeks, plus $10 a day,
up to 12 days for hospitaliza
tion.
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum of $40 a week.
Changed: Coverage transferred by
company under Mar. 19, 1956
agreement, from private in
surer to the California Disabil
ity Insurance Fund.
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum of $50 a week, up
to 26 weeks, plus $12 a day,
up to 20 days for hospitaliza
tion.
Increased: Nonoccupation acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum of $65 a week.
Alternate to State plan7 for employees who authorized
company to divert the 1 percent of 1st $3,000 of wages
a year heretofore deducted and paid to the State toward
the cost of the plan. This was separate from the group
plan already referred to under insurance benefits.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $3,600 of wages a year.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Effective date
Provision
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Disability benefit plan (or voluntary unemployment compensation disability plan)-Continued
Jan. 1, 1962 ..................................
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum of $70 a week.
Jan. 1, 1963 ..................................
Changed: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum to greater of $70 or
2/3 of average weekly wage
paid all covered employees
during 2nd calendar quarter of
each year.
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum of $77 a week.
Jan. 1, 1964 ..................................
Jan. 1,1965 ..................................
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum to $80 a week.
Aug. 1, 1965 ..................................
Jan. 1,1966
..................................
Nov. 1, 1968 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
Jan. 1,1969 ....................................
Jan. 1, 1972(agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
Apr. 1, 1972 ..................................
Increased: Nonoccupational ac
cident and sickness benefitsrange from $65 to $120 a
week, up to 52 weeks. Bene
fits payable on 1st day for
accident or hospital confine
ment; otherwise from the 8 th
day, or after the day on which
employee undergoes surgery
for which a benefit of at least
$35 is payable.
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum to $87 a week.
Increased: 3 brackets added to
top of nonoccupational sick
ness and accident benefits
schedule, bringing applicable
range to from $70 to $135 a
week, depending on base
hourly rate.8
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefitsmaximum to $105 a week.
Jan. 1, 1973 ..................................
Jan. 1, 1974 ..................................
Increased: Nonoccupational acci
dent and sickness benefit s maximum of $119 a week.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $4,100 of wages a year.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $4,600 of wages a year.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $5,100 of wages a year.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $5,600 of wages a year.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1.1 percent
of 1st $7,400 of wages a year.
Decreased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent
of 1st $7,400 of wages a year.
Private plan which supplements the State plan in California.
Benefits reduced by benefits under California Unemploy
ment Conpdnsation Disability Benefits Act, and primary
Disability Insurance Benefits under Social Security Act.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $8,000 of wages a year.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $8,500 of wages a year.
By California Unemployment Compensation Disability
Benefits Act.
Increased: Statutory employee contribution to 1 percent of
1st $9,000 of wages a year.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Disability benefit plan (or voluntary unemployment compensation disability plan)-Continued
Nov. 17, 1974 (agreement of
same date).
Increased, 4 brackets added to
top of nonoccupational sick
ness and accident benefits
schedule, bringing applicable
range to from $95 to $155 a
week, depending on base
hourly rate.9
Retirement plan
Apr. 1, 1955 (by retirement plan
agreement dated Dec. 14,
1954).
Oct. 1, 1960 (agreement dated
June 5, 1960).
Noncontributory retirement plan
established to provide: Nor
mal retirement benefits-Employees aged 65 or over with
at least 10 years’ credited ser
vice to receive $1.75 a month
for each year of service up to
30 years (to be supplemented
by Federal social security
benefits). Plan included a
joint and survivor option.
Early retirem ent-Em ployees
aged 60 but under 65 with at
least 15 years of credited ser
vice could retire at the option
of the company, with pen
sions reduced 0.6 percent for
each full month under 65.
D isability benefits-Employees
aged 50 but under 65 with 10
years’ credited service who
had been totally and perma
nently disabled for 6 months
to receive $70 a month less
any other disability benefits.
At age 65 regular retirement
pension to apply.
Death b en efit-$1,000 benefit
paid beneficiary if death oc
curred while employee was
receiving a retirement or dis
ability benefit.
Increased to: Normal retirement
benefits-employees aged 65
or older with at least 10 years’
credited service to receive
$2.40 a month for each year
of credited service before Jan.
1, 1961, plus $2.50 for each
subsequent year up to total of
35 years (to supplement Fed
eral social security benefits).
Changed to: Disability benefitsEmployees, at any age with 10
years or more of credited ser
vice, totally and permanently
Joint board established to determine individual employee’s
eligibility and amount of benefits under the plan, with
the recourse to medical umpire or impartial chairman.
Starting in 1958, retirement to be automatic at age 68
regardless of eligibility for benefits.
Not applicable where death benefit payable under the
company’s group life insurance plan.
Benefits for employees receiving normal or disability
pension before Oct. 1, 1960, increased to $2.35 a
month for each year of credited service in addition to
Federal social security benefits.
Added: Employees with 8 but less than 10 years’ credited
service, on layoff, at or after age 65 could apply for
normal retirement benefits if recall rights expire before
age 68. Benefits forfeited unless applied for within 6
months after notification of expiration of recall rights
or automatic retirement.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Retirement plan-Continued
Oct. 1, 1960 (agreement dated
June 5, 1960).
Nov. 1, 1965 (Retirement plan
agreement, Supplement No. 2
dated Dec. 29, 1965).
disabled, to receive $70 a
month or $5 time years of
service, whichever was larger.
Changed to: Early retirement-Employees aged 55 but
under 65 permitted to retire at
own option; could elect (1)
deferred normal retirement be
nefit at age 65, (2) an immedi
ate annuity actuarially re
duced, or (3) an actuarially
adjusted “ level” income
throughout retirement, receiv
ing a higher benefit from the
company plan than would be
due under the regular formula
until primary social security
benefits began and smaller
benefits thereafter with com
pany benefits plus primary
social security benefits equal
ing initial benefits from the
j
plan.
[Added: Vested right-Full vesting
at age 45 with 10 or more
years’ service for employees
terminated for any reason.
Corrections: Disability benefitsEmployee totally and perma
nently disabled with 10 years’
or more service and (1) eli
gible for social security dis
ability payments to receive
normal retirement benefits;
(2) not eligible for social se
curity disability payments to
receive greater of $70 a
month or $5 times years of
service.
Joint and survivor option-Employee, before age 65, could
choose actuarially equivalent
monthly benefits for self and
spouse reduced by 1/3 upon
death of either.
Eliminated: Joint and survivor
option.
Added: Survivor’s option-Providing reduced benefits to em
p lo y e e and spouse. Em
ployee’s retirement benefit to
equal (1) if employee and
spouse were the same a g e-90
percent of benefit employee
would have received, (2) if
Payable until employee becomes eligible for Federal social
security benefits; normal benefits paid thereafter.
Option (3) not applicable when monthly payment after
social security would be less than $15.
Employee could receive normal retirement benefits at age
65 or early retirement benefits at age 55. Benefits
forfeited unless applied for within 2 years after age 65.
See survivor option below.
Election revoked if employee or spouse died before
effective date of election.
Benefits not payable any month in which transition or
bridge benefits were applicable.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Retirement plan-Continued
Nov. 1, 1965 (Retirement plan
agreement, Supplement No. 2
dated Dec. 29, 1 965).Continued
Nov. 1, 1968 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
spouse was older than em
ployee-90 percent plus 0.5
p ercen t for each month
spouse’s age exceeded that of
employee, and (3) if employee
was older than spouse-90 per
cent minus 0.5 percent for
each 12 months spouse’s age
was less than that of em
ployee.
Spouse’s benefits to begin after
retired employee’s death and
to equal 55 percent of em
ployee’s reduced benefit.
Automatic surviving spouse bene
fit—Providing widow or de
pendent widower of an active
employee, who was eligible to
receive a pension at time of
death, with payments equal to
55 percent of the pension
benefit that the employee
would have received if he had
retired and elected the sur
vivor’s option.
Eliminated: Vested rights-minimum age as a condition for
vesting.
Changed to: Disability benefitsFull monthly disability bene
fit supplemented, for retiree
under 65 and not eligible for
unreduced social security
benefits, by the lesser of
$5.20 times years of service or
$130.
Increased: Normal retirement
benefits-to $4.75 a month
for each year of credited ser
vice. Unreduced benefits pay
able at age 62.
Increased: Normal, early, or dis
a b ility retirement benefit
rate-to $5.75 a month for
each year of credited service
(maximum 35 years).
Benefits for employees on normal retirement before Nov. 1,
1965, increased by $1.45 a month for each year of
credited service; employees receiving less than full
benefit to have $1.45 prorated.
Rate also applied to employees terminating with vested
deferred pension rights on or after Nov. 1, 1968.
Payable to employees with 10 or more years of credited
service (except for certain automatically retired em
ployees with 8 but fewer than 10 years of service).
Increased: Benefits for employees on normal, early, or
disability retirement before Nov. 1, 1968-b y $1 a
month for each year of credited service; similar increase
to eligible survivors receiving survivor’s benefits before
Nov. 1, 1968. The increase adjusted by the same factor
applicable to initial retirement benefit.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Retirement plan-Ccmtinued
Nov. 1, 1968 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).-Continued
Oct. 1, 1970 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
Jan. 1, 1972 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
Increased: Supplement to full
monthly disability benefits
(for retirees under age 65 and
not eligible for unreduced so
cial security) to $6 times years
of service (maximum $150).
Changed: Benefits under sur
vivor’s option-employee’s re
tirement benefit to equal (1)
if employee and spouse were
the same age-90 percent of
full benefits, (2) if spouse was
older than em ployee-90 per
cent plus 0.5 percent for each
12 months (over 60) spouse’s
age exceeded employee’s, and
(3) if employee was older than
spouse-90 percent minus 0.5
percent for each 12 months
(over 60) spouse’s age was less
than employee’s
Added: Special Age 65 Benefitequal to (1) $3 a month if
retiree or his spouse (but not
both) has attained age 65, and
(2) $6 a month if both are age
65.
Added: Special survivor benefitretiree whose benefit began
before Nov. 1, 1968, and who
had not made a survivorship
election could elect to pro
vide, in lieu of $1 per year of
service increase in monthly
retirement benefit, a special
survivor benefit of $1.60 per
year of service to eligible sur
viving spouse.
Increased: Normal, early, or dis
a b ility retirement benefit
rate-to $5.75 a month for
each year of credited service
(maximum 35 years) plus one
and one-half percent of the
excess of employee’s average
m on th ly pay rate over
$566.67 times his years of
credited service accrued after
Dec. 31, 1970 (minimum of 1
and maximum of 35 years).
Increased: Normal, early, dis
ability, or deferred vested pen
sion rate-to basic amount of
$8 per year of service for
Changed: Employee required to give written acceptance or
rejection of survivor’s option at time of pension
application (or for disability retirement before age
6 0 - upon reaching age 60).
To provide in part for the expense of Medicare coverage of
retired employee and/or his spouse.
Changed: Credited future service (after Nov. 1, 1968) to
include (1) up to 25 months’ approved leave for service
in the Peace Corps or VISTA, (2) up to 13 weeks of
layoff, and (3) up to 52 weeks of sick leave.
Special election had to have been made before May 1,
1969.
Monthly pay rate is the average of employee’s highest
monthly rates (computed by multiplying 173-1/3 times
employee’s base hourly rate on Jan. 1 of any calendar
year after 1970 in which he accrued credited service) for
5 consecutive years during the last 10 years before
retirement or termination. If employee has fewer than 5
years on which to base computation, the average is
based on the fewer number of years, but not less than 1.
The amount provided by the one and one-half percent of
excess earnings calculation is payable only to employee
retiring with 5 years or more of credited service.
Applicable for retirement on or after Jan. 1,1972.
Added: Employee on active payroll on or after Jan. 1, 1972
could “hook-up” all pension service credit lost because
of break or termination of employment. Seniority
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Retirement plan-Continued
Jan. 1, 1972 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).-Continued
Oct. 1, 1972 (agreement dated
Dec. 5,1971).
Jan. 1, 1975 (agreement dated
Nov. 17,1974).
maximum 35 years (replaced
previous formula based on
dollar amount per year of
credited service plus wagerelated add-on applicable only
to years after 1970).
Increased: Monthly supplemental
disability benefit-to $7.50
per year of service ($187.50
maximum) for employees re
tiring on or after Jan.l, 1972.
Added: “Level Income Special
Allowance” (LISA) early re
tirement-employee with 20
years or more of credited ser
vice could retire at or after age
60 and receive, in addition to
basic pension, $170 monthly
until age 62 (the LISA
approximated the Social Secu
rity payment at age 62 and
therefore income would re
main level). The basic $8 per
year of service pension for
such employees was reduced
by 1/3 of 1 percent for each
month (4 percent per year)
under age 62 at retirement
(instead of the higher reduc
tion factors generally appli
cable to early retirement).
Increased: Benefits under sur
vivors option-employee re
tirement benefits to equal (1)
if employee and spouse were
same age—95 percent of full
benefit, (2) if spouse was
older than em ployee-95 per
cent plus 0.5 percent for each
12 months (over 60) spouse’s
age exceeded employees, and
(3) if employee was older than
spouse-95 percent minus 0.5
percent for each 12 months
(over 60) spouse’s age was less
than employees.
Increased: Normal, early, and dis
a b ility retirement benefit
rate-to $9 per year of service
(maximum 35 years) for those
whose benefits began on or
after Jan. 1, 1975. Rate also
applied to employees termi
nating with vested deferred
employees who returned to active payroll from leave or
layoff after Jan. 1, 1972 and employees who were
re-employed and acquired seniority after Jan. 1, 1972
could receive similar “hook-up” on date of return or
acquisition of seniority.
Increased: Pension for those retired before Jan. 1, 1972, by
$1 a month per year of service. This increase was
adjusted by any factors applicable to pension and
survivors pensions were increased proportionately.
To be eligible for the LISA between ages 60 and 62, the
retiree had to agree at the time of pension application to
restrict post-retirement earning (if any) to same maxi
mum as under Social Security ($1,680) in a calendar
year.
Survivor benefits were increased under survivors option as a
result of increased retirees pensions since survivor
benefits were computed from an increased base amount.
Added: If the designated spouse of a retiree who had made
a survivor’s election died first or the couple divorced,
the retiree could cancel the election and receive the
pension he would have received without the election.
Similarly, pensions of past retirees (before Oct. 1, 1972)
could be restored if the spouse died first.
Increased: Basic pension rate for normal, early, and
disability retirement to $7.50 per year of service for
those whose benefits began before Jan. 1, 1972 and to
$8.50 per year of service for those whose benefits began
on or after Jan. 1, 1972 but before Jan.l, 1975. The
increases were adjusted by any factors applicable and
survivors’ pensions were increased proportionately.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Retirement plan-Continued
Jan. 1, 1975 (agreement dated
Nov. 17, 1974).-Continued
Jan. 1, 1976 (agreement dated
Nov. 17,1974).
Jan. 1, 197 7 (agreement dated
Nov. 17, 1974).
pension rights on or after Jan.
1.1975.
Changed: Employee retired with
early retirement benefit that
began on or after Jan. 1, 1975
but before age 62 to have
basic pension otherwise pay
able reduced by Vi of 1 per
cent for each month between
benefit commencement date
and first day of month after
62nd birthday.
Increased: LISA—to $250 for
those retired with benefits
that began on or after Jan. 1,
1975.
Increased: Monthly supplemental
disability benefit-to $10 per
year of service ($250 maxi
mum) for eligible retirees with
benefits that began on or after
Jan.l, 1975.
Changed: No reduction in basic
pension for employees age 60
with 20 years of service who
retired with benefits that be
gan on or after Jan. 1, 1975.
Increased: Normal, early, and dis
a b ility retirement benefit
rate-to $10 per year of ser
vice (maximum 35 years) for
those whose benefits began on
or after Jan. 1, 1975. Rate
also applied to employees ter
minating with vested deferred
pension rights on or after Jan.
1.1975.
Increased: Surviving spouse benefit payable pursuant to
“special survivor option” offered in 1968, computed at
$3 per year of service for each $1 per year retiree would
have received as pension increase on Nov. 1, 1968.
Changed: Special Age 65 Benefit not payable to (a)
employee with retirement benefit beginning on or after
Jan. 1, 1975 or for spouse or surviving spouse of such
employee, or (b) surviving spouse of employee covered
by automatic survivor’s benefits if employee’s death
occurred on or after Jan. 1, 1975. The company agreed
to reimburse such persons under group insurance plan
for Medicare Part B premiums in lieu of Special Age 65
Benefit.
Increased: Basic pension rate for normal, early, and
disability retirement to $8 per year of service for those
whose benefits began before Jan. 1, 1972. The increase
was adjusted by any factors applicable and survivors’
pensions were increased proportionately.
Increased: Basic pension rate for normal, early, and
disability retirement to $9 for those whose benefits
began before Jan. 1, 1975. The increase was adjusted by
any factors applicable and survivors’ pensions were
increased proportionately.
Extended layoff benefits
July 1, 1960 (agreement dated
June 5, 1960).
Plan established to help pay living
expenses by supplementing
unemployment compensation
and to help compensate for
loss of job security, vacation,
and sick leave accrual, and
insurance benefit coverage.10
The first monthly increment of the company’s maximum
liability to be computed as of the first Monday in July
1960.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Extended layoff benefits-Continued
July 1, 1960 (agreement dated
June 5, 1960).-Continued
Size of Benefits-Lump-sum pay
ment of $50 for each full year
of qualifying service up to 10.
Maximum benefit $500; mini
mum $25.
Eligibility- Employees with a full
year’s service separated as a
result of a reduction in work
ing force of indeterminate
length to be eligible for bene
fits after 4-week waiting pe
riod, on written application.
Company liability-Maximum of
$5.20 a month for each em
ployee on active payroll on
first Monday of each month,
but not to exceed $100 per
employee on payroll at same
time.
Oct. 1, 1962 (agreement dated
Sept. 30, 1962).
Feb. 1, 1970 (agreement dated
Feb. 13, 1970).
Increased: Company liability-By
50 percent to $150 (was
$100) per employee on active
payroll.
Size of benefits-To $75 for each
full year of qualifying service
up to 15 (was $50 for each
full year up to 10), maximum
benefit $1,125.
Plan applicable to bargaining
units covered by Master
Agreement suspended due to
current and prospective Ex
tended Layoff Benefit claims
substantially over the maxi
mum company liability to
make payments.
Benefits not paid more than once for any year of service.
Benefits not payable to employees (1) forfeiting recall
rights or losing seniority right by refusal or failure to
return to work; or (2) receiving, eligible for, or claiming
(during month of application for benefits under plan)
(a) statutory or company accident, sickness, or other
disability benefits other than survivor’s allowance under
workmen’s compensation or disability benefits granted
or for which employee was eligible while in full
employment, (b) unemployment benefits from any
other employer, or (c) pension payments (other than
vested rights payable in future) from plan to which
company had contributed.
Contingent on obtaining favorable rulings and advanced
understandings that benefits provided under plan did
not constitute income to the employee until paid.
Rulings or advanced understandings were obtained that (1)
no part of liability or benefit paid would be included in
the regular rate of pay of any employee, (2) benefits
paid under plan would be reimbursable costs (in the
performance) of the Government contract, and (3)
benefits could be deductible by the company as
ordinary business expense at time of payment.11
If payment of benefits to all eligible employees in any
month exceed company’s maximum liability at that
time, amount not exceeding company’s maximum liabil
ity to be equitably prorated in accordance with formula
agreed to by representatives of company and union;
formula to provide for an equal percentage reduction of
benefit pay to each eligible employee.
Benefits first payable when company’s total liability ex
ceeded average of $20 per employee.
Company to guarantee full payment of ELB claims arising
from layoffs before Feb. 1, 1970 plus hospital-surgicalm edical insurance premiums (for both em
ployees and dependents) of those currently or prospec
tively on layoff through Spetember 1970, rather than
to pay reduced ELB and no further hospital-surgicalmedical-premiums after Feb. 1, 1970.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Extended layoff benefits-Continued
Feb. 1, 1970 (agreement dated
Feb. 1 3 ,1970).-Continued
Under the agreement dated Oct.
6, 1968, the ELB plan was to
be replaced by a Supplemental
Unemployment Benefit plan
on Oct. 1, 1970. Employees
laid off before Oct. 1, 1970
and applying for benefits be
fore Dec. 2, 1970, covered by
ELB provisions only.
Supplemental unemployment benefits plan
Oct. 1, 1970 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
See footnotes at end of table.
Plan established replacing Ex
tended L a y o ff Benefits
Plan:12
Contributions:
Company to contribute 3 cents
for each hour employees re
ceive pay (other than vacation
or sick leave allowance), begin
ning Sept. 6, 1970.
Amount of benefits:
Regular benefits (full week of
layoff)-65 percent of base
hourly rate (plus cost-of-living
allowance) for 40-hour week,
less any State benefits re
ceived or any earnings over
$12 a week from another em
p loyer; maximum weekly
benefit from F u n d -$55.
Short workweek benefits (some
company pay in week)-65
percent of base hourly rate
(plus cost-of-living allowance)
times the difference between
40 hours and the employee’s
compensated hours and “avail
able” unworked hours (if any)
in week.
Eligibility:
Regular benefits-main require
ments are that employee: (1)
be on a qualifying layoff as
defined in Plan; (2) receive
State Unemployment Com
pensation for the week or be
ineligible for State U.C. for an
acceptable reason under the
Plan, such as (a) exhaustion of
U.C. rights; (b) amount of
“wages or remuneration” in
week as defined by State law;
(c) State “waiting week”
served during temporary lay
off; (d) failure to claim a
Applicable only to employees laid off on or after Oct. 1,
1970.
Contributions to be deposited in SUB Trust Fund held by
bank or trust company appointed by the company as
Trustee. Contributions to be reduced by amount of
benefits paid directly by the company for short work
weeks and by amounts of company-paid hospital-sur
gical-medical premiums for certain laid-off employees.
Benefits payable, beginning Sept. 5,1 9 7 1 .
Regular benefits may be based on fewer than 40 hours if
employee had hours “available” but not worked in
week.
Benefits for full week of layoff payable only from SUB
Fund.
Benefits payable, beginning Sept. 5, 1971.
Benefits for short workweeks are paid directly by the
company without application at the same time as
employee’s pay for the week.
Effective date
Provision
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Supplemental unemployment benefits plan-Continued
Oct. 1, 1970 (agreement dated
Oct. 6 ,1 9 6 8 ).-Continued
October 1972 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).
partial U.C. payment which,
because o f “wages or re
muneration,” would not have
exceeded $2; (3) meet registra
tion and reporting require
ments of State Employment
Office; (4) have a credit unit
or fraction thereof under plan;
(5) file written application
within 60 days after week for
which benefit is claimed.
Short workweek benefits-main
requirements are that em
ployee: (1) Receive some pay
from company for week but
have fewer than 40 hours
compensated or “available”;
(2) have at least 1 year of
seniority; and (3) be on quali
fying layoff for part of week.
Credit units:
Duration of regular benefits for a
continuous layoff governed by
employee’s “credit units.”
Employees who had 1 year of
seniority on Oct. 4, 1970, and
in active service, or were in
active service within preceding
30 days, receive initial “bank”
of credit units based on em
ployment since Oct. 8, 1968.
Commencing Oct. 4, 1970,
employees accrue credit units
at rate of Vi credit unit for
each week on payroll; maxi
mum at any given time—52
credit units.
Credit units are cancelled for each
regular benefit received by
laid off employee. Rate of
cancellation is determined by
cancellation table and varies
depending on (1) length of
seniority, and (2) per capita
level of assets in SUB Fund
( “ credit unit cancellation
base”).13
Maximum funding:
Contributions not required if as
sets in SUB Fund reach
amount equal to 20 times the
average full benefit rate times
the average number of covered
em p loyees (both averages
“Bank” of credit units is reduced if Extended Layoff
Benefits were received after Oct. 8, 1968.
Employees with less than 1 year of seniority before Oct. 4,
1970, received “bank” upon meeting 1 year of seniority
and active service requirement.
Employee forfeits accrued credit units if he (1) breaks
seniority, (2) has been on continuous layoff for 24
months, or (3) willfully misrepresents material fact in
SUB application.
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Provision
Supplemental unemployment benefits plan-Continued
October 1972 (agreement dated
Oct. 6, 1968).-Continued
Sept. 30, 1973 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
based on preceding 12-month
period).
Plan discontinued and assets of
SUB fund were transferred to
Layoff Benefit and Security
(Savings) Program.
Layoff benefit and security (savings) program
Sept. 30, 1973 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).
Established: Layoff benefit plan
funded by company and sav
ings plan to which employee
contributions were augmented
by company funding. Com
pany contributed 6 cents for
hours worked, except vacation
and sick leave hours.
Layoff benefit plan-company
contributed on a “unit” basis
to individual “benefit ac
counts” or “contingency ac
counts” at rate of 2 Basic
Allocation Units14 for each
pay period of plan month for
which employee received pay
(other than vacation or sick
leave allowance) from the
company except if employ
ment had been terminated or
employee became eligible for
benefit before last pay period
of plan month (then no credits
for that month). An employee
with seniority of 12 months or
more had a “benefit account”
and was eligible for a lump
sum payout of account if em
ployee had been on (a)
layoff for over 4 weeks, (b)
medical leave and was released
by physician for work, but
company physician said em
ployee was physically unable
to perform available work so
that leave was continued more
than an additional 4 weeks, or
(c) medical leave more than
12 months.
Savings plan-employee with 6
months of seniority could
contribute $3, $5, or $7 a
week to individual “savings
accounts” to which company
would contribute on a “unit”
basis at the rate of 1/10 of a
Company contribution reduced by amount of money
required to pay group health insurance premiums for
certain laid off employees.
For employees with less than 12 months of seniority, a
“contingency account” was maintained until employee
attained 12 months of seniority (or until return from
layoff if during layoff such seniority was attained).
Employee could change contribution amount only once
every 6 months.
Provision
Effective date
Applications, exceptions, and
other related matters
Layoff benefits and security (sav:ings) program-Continued
Sept. 30, 1973 (agreement dated
Dec. 5, 1971).-Continued
Jan. 1, 1975 (agreement dated
Nov. 17,1974).
C o n trib u tio n A llo c a tio n
Unit14 for each $1 total
contributions in all pay pe
riods of plan month, except
those refunded because of ter
mination before last pay pe
riod of plan month (then no
credits for that month). Once
every 6 months employee
could withdraw some or all of
account (excluding company
contributions) in amounts of
$100 or more (unless with
drawable portion was less than
$100). The account was paid
in full on (a) retirement, (b)
termination for any reason, or
(c) more than 4 weeks’ layoff
from the company. In event of
death, entire amount paid to
beneficiary.
Changed: Savings plan-employee
could contribute $3, $5, $7,
or $10 a week.
Changed: Company contributed monthly to employee’s
savings account for employee on excused absence for
union leave 1 or more full pay periods whether or not
employee elected to contribute to savings plan. Pre
viously, leave had to be for a full plan month and
company contributed only if employee elected to
participate in savings plan.
Changed: Employee who withdrew from savings had to
wait 3 months to make another withdrawal.
Changed: Employees to receive 1
Basic Allocation Unit to lay
off benefit plan in place of 2
Basic Allocation Units and
2/10 of a Contribution Alloca
tion Unit for each $1 con
tributed to savings plan in
place of 1/10 of a Contribu
tion Allocation Unit for each
$ 1.
Jan. 1, 1976 (agreement dated
Nov. 17, 1974).
See footnotes at end of table.
Changed: Offset to company contributions to layoff
benefit and security program because of payment of
premiums for group health insurance for certain laid off
employees was limited to amount of premiums that
exceeded amount determined by multiplying 1 cent by
the number of hours used in determining company
contribution to the layoff benefit and security program.
1The last entry under each item represents the most recent change.
2 During the period covered by Executive Order 9240 (Oct. 1, 1942, to Aug. 21, 1945) the application of these provisions was
modified where necessary to conform to the order.
3Effective Oct. 26, 1953, for bargaining unit employees at work during strike.
4 Defined as 8 hours’ straight-time pay for first- and second-shift workers and straight-time hours times straight-time rate for
third-shift workers.
5Plan provided:
Supplemental Insurance
Base hourly rate
Life
Accidental death
and dismemberment
Monthly employee
contribution
$2,500
2,500
2,500
2,500
2,500
2,500
$2.50
3.75
5.00
6.25
8.75
10.00
Less than $2.89 . . . $5,000
7,500
$2.89-$3.46 .........
$3.47-$4.03 ............
10,000
$4.04-$4.80 ............
12,500
$4.81-$5.76 ............
17,500
$5.77 and over . . . .
20,000
6
Additional months of coverage were as follow:
Years o f seniority
at layoff
Less than 1 ......................................................
1 ........................................................................
2 to 3 ................................................................
4 to 5 ................................................................
6 to 7 ................................................................
8 to 9 ................................................................
10 and o v e r ..................................................
Additional months
o f coverage
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7Employees located at the company’s plants outside of California were covered by a private plan that provided substantially the
same benefits as those available to California employees under the State program.
The California Unemployment Compensation Disability Benefits Act required that covered employees be provided with
nonoccupational accident and sickness and hospitalization protection, up to specified maximums, by a private carrier, self insurance, or
the State fund. Employees were permitted to elect the insurer (private or State) by majority vote. An individual worker, however,
could reject the private plan for coverage by the State fund. Under the law, private plans must provide benefits equal in all respects,
and superior in at least one respect, to statutory benefits. The act became effective May 21, 1946.
8Weekly sickness and accident benefits were as follow:
Base hourly
rate
Less
3.15
3.40
3.65
3.90
4.15
4.40
4.65
4.90
5.15
5.40
5.65
5.90
than $ 3 .1 5 ......................................................................
but less than 3.40 ..........................................................
but less than 3.65 ..........................................................
but less than 3.90 ..........................................................
but less than 4.15 ..........................................................
but less than 4.40 .......................................
but less than 4.65 .........................................................
but less than 4.90 .........................................................
but less than 5.15 .........................................................
but less than 5.40 .........................................................
but less than 5.65 .........................................................
but less than 5.90 .........................................................
and over...........................................................................
Weekly
benefit
$70
80
85
90
95
100
105
110
115
120
125
130
135
9Benefits were determined as follows:
Base hourly rate
Weekly benefit
Less than $ 4 .1 5 ......................................................
4.15 but less than 4 . 4 0 .........................................
4.40 but less than 4.65 ........................................
4.65 but less than 4 . 9 0 ........................................
4.90 but less than 5.15 ........................................
5.15 but less than 5 . 4 0 .........................................
5.40 but less than 5.65 .........................................
5.65 but less than 5 . 9 0 .........................................
5.90 but less than 6.15 ........................................
6.15 but less than 6 . 4 0 ........................................
6.40 but less than 6.65 .........................................
6.65 but less htan 6 . 9 0 .........................................
6.90 and over ........................................................
$95
100
105
110
115
120
125
130
135
140
145
150
155
I °If simultaneous benefit payments would disqualify or reduce State unemployment benefits, the parties were to amend the plan to
eliminate the basis for such disqualification or reduction of benefits. If such an amendment was not mutually agreed upon by Sept. 30,
1960, a 3-cent-an-hour general wage increase reduced by any benefits paid would become effective July 1, 1960.
II If rulings or advance understandings were revoked or modified so as to be unsatisfactory to company, obligation to assume
liability under plan was to cease-provided, however, that in such event, company agreed, before termination of plan, promptly to
determine if a basis existed, consistent with the provisions of the plan, for securing a satisfactory ruling or advance understanding. If
the plan was terminated in this manner, employees in the bargaining unit at that time would receive a 3-cent-an-hour general wage
increase, effective from the first Sunday after such termination.
12 Employees laid off on or after Oct. 1, 1970, may qualify for extended hospital-surgical-medical insurance during layoff (beyond
first full month of layoff, which is covered under basic company-paid insurance plan) based on SUB credit units, seniority, and an
assumed SUB fund level. Cash benefits for full weeks of layoff and short workweeks commence Sept. 5, 1971, to permit build-up of
SUB fund from 3-cent-per-hour contributions starting Sept. 6, 1970.
13 The credit unit cancellation base (CUCB), determined monthly, is a dollar amount equal to the current market value of SUB fund
assets divided by the sum of the number of employees in active service and the number laid off with credit units. Initially, a CUCB of
$150 was assumed with provision for later computation based on actual plan finances upon occurrence of specified circumstances. The
table governing cancellation of credit units is as follows:
If the credit unit cancella
tion base applicable to the
week for which benefit
is paid is -
As of the last day of the week for which
such benefit is paid to the employee his
years of seniority are1 to 5
5 to 10
10 to 15
15 to 20
20 to 25
25 and over
The credit units canceled shall b e $272 or m o re...............................................................
$243.20 to $271.99 ....................................................
$214.40 to $243.19 ....................................................
$185.60 to $ 2 1 4 .3 9 ....................................................
$156.80 to $185.59 ....................................................
$128.00 to $156.79 ....................................................
$99.20 to $127.99 ......................................................
$70.40 to $ 9 9 .1 9 ........................................................
$41.60 to $70.39 ........................................................
$12.80 to $ 4 1 .5 9 ........................................................
Under $ 1 2 .8 0 ...............................................................
1.00
1.11
1.25
1.43
1.67
2.00
2.50
3.33
5.00
10.00
1.00
1.00
1.11
1.25
1.43
1.67
2.00
2.50
3.33
5.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.11
1.00
1.11
1.25
1.43
1.25
1.67
1.43
1.67
2.00
2.00
2.50
3.33
2.50
. . . No benefits navahle . .
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.11
1.25
1.43
1.67
2.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.11
1.25
1.43
1.67
14 For each plan month a company contribution was due, the company calculated the contribution value of 1 Allocation Unit by
dividing the total amount of such contribution by the sum of all Basic Allocation Units and all Contribution Allocation Units credited
to participants for such plan month.
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 nay be
obtained, as long as supplies are available, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C. 20212, or from the
Bureau’s regional offices. Out-of-print items also may be available for reference in leading public, college, or university
libraries.
Before July 1965, basic wage chronologies and their supplements were published in th c Monthly Labor Review and
released as Bureau reports. Wage chronologies published latev 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.
Aluminum Company of America with United Steelworkers of America and Aluminum Workers International
Union—
Nov. 1939-May 1974, BLS Bulletin 1815
Feb. 1974-May 1977, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1815
American Viscose (a division of FMC Corp.)—
1945-67, BLS Bulletin 1560.1
June 1968-June 1974, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1560
The Anaconda Co.—
1941-58. BLS Report 197.'
Armour and Company1941-72, BLS Bulletin 1682
Sept. 1973-Aug. 1976, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1682
A.T.&T.—Long Lines Department and Communications Workers of America
(AFL-CIO)—
Oct. 1940-July 1974, BLS Bulletin 1812
Atlantic Richfield Co. (former Sinclair Oil Companies’ facilities)—
1941-72, BLS Bulletin 1771
Jan. 1973-Jan. 1975, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1771
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and the Textile Workers—
June 1943-Apr. 1975. BLS Bulletin 1849
Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Shipbuilding Department) and the 1UMSW—
June 1941-Aug. 1975, BLS Bulletin 1866
Bituminous Coal Mine Operators and United Mine Workers of America—
Oct. 1933-Nov. 1974, Bulletin 1799
The Boeing Company (Washington Plants) and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers—
June 1936-Sept. 1977, BLS Bulletin 1895
Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago and International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersOct. 1945-Mar. 1974, BLS Bulletin 1808
Dan River Inc.—
May 1943-Jan. 1972, BLS Bulletin 1767
Jan. 1973-June 1974, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1767
Federal Employees under the General Schedule Pay System—
July 1924-Oct. 1974, BLS Bulletin 1870
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. and B .r. Goodrich Co. (Akron Plants)—
1937-73, BLS Bulletin 1762
Apr. 1973-Apr. 1976, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1762
Ford Motor Company—
June 1941-Sept. 1973, BLS Bulletin 1787
Oct. 1973-Sept. 1976. Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1787
International Harvester Co. and the Auto Workers—
Feb. 1946-Sept. 1976, BLS Bulletin 1887
International Paper Co., Southern Kraft DivisionDec. 1937-May 1973, BLS Bullet!r 1788
June 1973-May 1977, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1788
International Shoe Co. (a division of Intereo, nc.)1945-74. BLS Bulletin 1718
Lockheed-California Company (a division of Lockh <..1 Aircraft Corp.)—
1937-67, BLS Bulletin 1522/
Martin Marietta Aerospace and the Auto WjikersMar. 1944-Nov. 1975, BLS Bulletin 1884
Massachusetts Shoe Manufacturers and United Shoe Vi kt s of America (AFL-CIO)—
Jan. 1945-Jan. 1975, BLS Bulletin 1800
New York City Laundries and the Clothing Workers—
Nov. 1945-Nov. 1975, BLS Bulletin 1845
North Atlantic Longshoremen—
1934-71, BLS BuLetir 1736
Pacific Coast Shipbuilding1941- 67, BLS BuLetir. 1605/
Pacific Gas and Eiectrx Co.—
1943-73. BLS Bulletin 176,
Pacific Longshore industry—
1934-70, BLS Bulletin 1568.1
Aug. 1969-July 1975, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1568
Railroads-Nonoperatlng Employees—
1920-62, BLS 'v i art 208.1
Swift & Co.—
1942- 73 ELS Bulletin 1773/
United States Steel Corporation and United Steelworkers of America—
Mar. 1937-April 1974, BLS Bulletin 1814
May : 97* -July 9 7 7, Supplement to BLS Bulletin 1814
Western Greyhound L nos—
1945-67, L/.S Buhefin 1595 1968- 2. S .pplemem to BLS Buletin ,595
Western 'Jr m ' jgrapn Co.—
1.9 3 / 7,
S Bulletin 1545 /
1968-71, iuj pierr ent to BLS Bulletin 1545
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