El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1982 Page: 28 of 37
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Page 10-C El Campo Leader-News, El Campo, TX, Wed , Sept 29,1982
American Labor Leadership Shows Weaknesses
As the new school year
began this September
over 300,000 of America’s
children were idle as the
result of teachers' strikes
across the nation.
NFL players are inter-
rupting the fall football
schedule until they
receive what would
amount to an immediate
raise in their average an-
nual salary — from
990.000 today to $175,000
tomorrow. Moreover,
they are demanding this
windfall in the form of a
percentage of team
owners' revenues.
Even the IRS doesn’t
demand that!
Meanwhile, nearly
140.000 steelworkers are
umemployed or
underemployed today as
our steel industry
operates at less than 50
percent of capacity.
Despite this and the fact
that American
fteelworkers' compensa-
tion exceeds $20 per hour
(nearly double that of our
fercest foreign com-
etitors) the union
eadership recently
efused to make the con-
i essions needed to keep
i lore of their members
i n the job.
Our once proud
i laritime industry,
i umber one in the world
I 0 years ago, now ranks
1th behind such com-
etitors as Libya, Greece
nd Panama. We have
iy 500 ships carrying
four percent of our
merce overseas. Yet,
HAS MAOS A
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union requirements such
as that which results in
crews 25 percent bigger
than they need to be, con
tinue unabated
There are many other
examples of demands
and requirements put
forth by union leaders
that have helped price in-
dustry after industry out
of the world
marketplace. In many
cases, young workers
and minorities have been
squeezed out of jobs for
the sake of additional
perks for senior
employees. On another
labor front, thousands of
American lives have
been disrupted, and in
some caties endangered,
by a rash of public
employee strikes
Can we afford this kind
of labor leadership in our
effort to beat back
foreign competition and
rebuild our economy in
the 1982?
Let me state in the
strongest terms that I am
not claiming 'hat unions
must bear all the blame
for high unemployement,
sagging productivity and
declining American com-
petitiveness I have
documented govern-
ment’s role in this mess
on countless occasions in
this column And yes,
management must share
responsbiiity as well.
Also, I am not sug
gesting that unions and
collective bargaining
don’t have a legitimate
and even constructive
role to play in our
modern industrial
economy.
What 1 am suggesting
is that our country was
built on the nv«t magmfi-
cient economic concept
ever devised — that
human progress for the
common man can best be
achieved through a
system based on incen-
tives, individual in-
itiative and rewards that
match output and pro-
ductivity.
No economic system is
perfect, but ours has
worked beyond our
wildest dreams. Market
forces of supply, demand
and competition have
held down prices and
placed an unimaginable
array of goods and ser
vices within the reach of
the average American.
Yet, when you keep
throwing monkey wren-
ches into the free market
machinery, as has been
done for the past half cen-
tury, we have the worst
of all worlds. Supply and
demand trickle away.
Prices go out of sight.
Jobs, industries and
sometimes whole com-
munities simply disap-
pear.
Today we need union
leaders who exercise
restraint and statesman-
ship in the bargaining
process Leaders who
understand that
economic progress is
more than an extra vaca-
tion or a cost-of-living in-
crease. Leaders who
have the courage to tell
their rank and file that
the pay hike they extract
from the company today,
unless it is fully commen-
surate with an increase
in worker output, may
cost them their jobs
tomorrow
Perhaps most impor-
tant, we need leaders in
business, government
and labor who train their
gaze on the long-term
picture for a change, and
not only on today’s
balance sheet. If they do
that and allow American
enterprise to function in a
relatively free
marketplace, then there
is no question that we can
whip our foreign com
petitiors abroad and cure
our economic ills at
home.
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1982, newspaper, September 29, 1982; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1006895/m1/28/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.