**Date:** 1967-07-27 **Source:** Uniroyal Union — Wage increases over the par-ed will totaL 40 cents an hour, with a 15 cent increase this year, July 1, 1968 and 10 cents on June 30, 1969. Skilled trade employes will receive an additional 10 cents an hour this year. Sources indicated that al-though the wage differential be-tween … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-26 **Source:** Naugatuck, Conn. — Negotiations between UniRoyal and the United Rubber Workers union ran well into midnight this morning in Cincinnati with apparently no agreement reached. In the event of a settlement during the annual scheduled footwear plant shut-down, striking URW members are being asked if they desire to work instead of vacationing … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-25 **Source:** Established 1885 — With four of the “Big Five” rubber companies settled with the United Rubber Workers Union, prospects for an early settlement between UniRoyal, Inc. and the union look particularly good today. The annual three-week vacation shutdown of the UniRoyal plants throughout the nation–this Friday. The firm began distributing vacation checks … Read more
**Date:** 4-21-47 **Source:** Unknown — By PATRICK KEATING Register Staff Reporter NAUGATUCK — A strike, the second in the past two years against the Uni-Royal by the United Rubber Workers, AFL-CIO, has closed the company’s tire-making local divisions and idled some 5,000 workers today. The decision to strike the entire Uni-Royal operation was made earlier … Read more
**Date:** 1/24/47 **Source:** AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Rubber workers in Akron voted overwhelmingly Sunday to accept a three-year contract with the B.F. Goodrich Co. A spokesman for Local 5, United Rubber Workers, said the standing vote was “about 3,000 for and 25 against.” Goodrich has 10,930 union members in nine locals and the Akron local … Read more
**Date:** 6/23/54 **Source:** AKRON, OHIO (UPI) — Signs of optimism were apparent today in the 90-day-old rubber industry strike. There also were further signs of the walkout’s growing financial toll, as the B. F. Goodrich Co. reported its second quarter net income was down 92.5 per cent. Goodrich and General Tire & Rubber Co. reached … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-19 **Source:** Naugatuck, Conn. — AKRON, Ohio (UP) — Observers looked for further breaks in the 88-day-old rubber industry strike today with attention focused on the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. talks in Cleveland. United Rubber Workers International President Peter Bommarito was in Cleveland to assist at the negotiations. A Firestone spokesman said, “we’re … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-15 **Source:** Waterbury American — AKRON, OHIO (UPI)–With| General — but two cents to less the nation’s rubber production down to 25 per cent of its total, negotiators for four major tire companies and the striking United Rubber Workers (URW) took a weekend break. There was little hope a tentative agreement reached Thursday with … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-11 **Source:** Unknown — Violence, which began Thursday at the strikebound Naugatuck footwear plant of Uniroyal, continued today as 21 arrests were made, Manganielli, vice president of Local 45, United Rubber Workers, with bullhorn urges striking employes to allow male office workers through the plant gates this morning. At right, office workers begin marching … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-11 **Source:** THE WORKER — AKRON, O.–This rubber city with some 300,000 population is in the throes of a long drawn out strike that has passed its 80th day. There are 52,000 on strike in 36 cities, about 15,000 of them here. The key work in Firestone, Goodrich and Uniroyal whose base is in … Read more
**Date:** 7-1 **Source:** Unknown — AKRON, OHIO (UPI)—The head of the United Auto Workers Union said Friday a wage offer to striking United Rubber Workers (URW) by major tire producers was “miserly.” Walter Reuther, who has taken up the cause of the striking rubber workers by pumping more than $1 million into the URW’s strike … Read more
**Date:** 1967-07-01 **Source:** Waterbury Republican — NAUGATUCK — A new type the area large numbers of the Uniroyal strikers rushed to Waterbury to join long lines of people signing up. No one was flatly refused, but strikers were told they would receive final word during the coming week. As the rumor spread around the borough … Read more
