job-control

Not surprisingly, then, when the United Auto Workers finally signed agreements with what had become the Big Three in the late 1930s, the main issues were seniority and job rights; the movement was called job-control unionism.14

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

Not surprisingly, then, when the United Auto Workers finally signed agreements with what had become the Big Three in the late 1930s, the main issues were seniority and job rights; the movement was called job-control unionism.14

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

However, in place of the usual union contract with thousands of pages of fine print defining narrow job categories and other job-control issues, the NUMMI contract provided for only two categories of workers—assemblers and technicians.

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

We do not mean to suggest that Ford has no plans to eventually renegotiate its rigid job-control contracts.

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

However, in place of the usual union contract with thousands of pages of fine print defining narrow job categories and other job-control issues, the NUMMI contract provided for only two categories of workers—assemblers and technicians.

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007

We do not mean to suggest that Ford has no plans to eventually renegotiate its rigid job-control contracts.

The Machine That Changed the World James P. Womack 2007