**Date:** 6-7-67
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ing made.
Contention most likely will
develop over the companies’
continued plan for pay boost
differentials between tire and
non-tire employes. This is what
George Froehlich, president of
Local 45, explained at the meet-
ing he held for the Local’s
membership in the borough.
The length of the contract
and the guaranteed annual wage
provisions will also probably
be a stumbling block. A pay
boost differential has been con-
tained in each of the last three
wage contracts, though the
margin was narrowed in the
1965 agreement. Bommarito
has labeled the differentials
as discriminatory.
The proposals have activated
the negotiation sessions which
had grown stale. Membership
of the three borough Locals
were becoming depressed and
fortifying themselves for a long
drawn-out strike when no ap-
parent progress was reported.
Union members have been
collecting a $25 a week check;
however, the amount is sched-
uled to be decreased to $15 per
week as the union treasury is
being drained with the seven
week strike involving some 55,-
000 members.