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Collision Course
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When workers at Eastern Airlines were asked to accept deep wage cuts, unions came up with a bold counter-proposal that gave employees both a 25 percent ownership stake and an unprecedented say in c...
When workers at Eastern Airlines were asked to accept deep wage cuts, unions came up with a bold counter-proposal that gave employees both a 25 percent ownership stake and an unprecedented say in corporate decisions. It was the most profound change in labor-management relations ever seen in any major American company, and the results were overwhelmingly positive. Yet when competitive pressures re-emerged, the innovative agreement was pulled apart by the very people who had put it together. This program traces the dramatic rise and fall of the "workplace cooperation" initiative at Eastern Airlines, providing a case study of the dos, donts, and maybes of this innovative idea.
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- Creator
- California Newsreel (Firm)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2012], c1988
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (47 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn820959176
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on September 09, 2012.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- New Economic Era (2:02) -- Machine Workers Fight Back (2:14) -- Francis Cabot Lowell (2:11) -- New Industrial Order (1:46) -- Post War Economy (2:05) -- Era of Competition (2:06) -- Eastern Airlines Financial Conditions (2:36) -- Competing Under Deregulation (3:30) -- Radical Labor Proposal (3:02) -- Progressive Labor Plan (2:53) -- Scientific Management (2:26) -- Tapping Employee Potential (3:27) -- Eastern Airlines under New Deal (1:42) -- Fostering Shop Floor Entrepreneurship (3:27) -- New Financial Crisis in 1985 (2:05) -- Rekindled Labor Wars (2:31) -- Motion to Sell Eastern Airlines (2:30) -- Market Place Rules (1:51) -- New Economic Era (2:13) -- Credits: Collision Course (1:32)