Leonard Woodcock Quotes

Leonard Woodcock — American Activist born on February 15, 1911, died on January 16, 2001

Leonard Freel Woodcock was President of the United Auto Workers and the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China... (wikipedia)

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.

At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years.

I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

Leonard Woodcock Quotes

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