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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sundov, September 12, 1976
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BARGAINING TO RESUME TODAY:
No progress in auto talks
Quiz air controllers in
crash
DETROIT (A)-Contract talks'
talks between Ford Motor Co.
and the United Auto Workers
(UAW) became a race against
the clock yesterday as the two
sides struggled to meet a strike
deadline of 11:59 p.m. EDT
Tuesday.
Bargainers met for six hours
yesterday, but the union said no
progress was made when dis-
cussions ended for the day.
Talks were to resume today.
FORD MADE a second pro-
posal Friday, offering conces-
sions on wages and fringe bene-
fits, but the UAW voiced con-
cern that the new package pro-
vided too little, too late.
The union is prepared to call
its 170,000 Ford workers off the
job if there is no agreement on
a new three-year pact when the
current contract expires.
Yesterday, negotiators di-
vided into two bargaining groups
-one working on money issues
and one on noneconomic mat-
ters. A company spokesman said
there also were subcommittee
sessions on grievance proced-
ures and health and safety is-
sues.
UAW PRESIDENT Leonard
Woodcock said Friday he is not
optimistic about the chances of
averting a nationwide walkout.
But Ford said its latest offer is
not final and there is room for
further bargaining.
Ford's initial offer, made on
Aug. 31, was angrily rejected
by the union as an "insult."
Woodcock's reaction to the sec-
ond offer was more restrained,
but the union leader said it still
failed to resolve any of the
major issues.
The new package hiked Ford's
earlier wage offer by an aver-
age six cents an hour; pro-
posed an increase in company
contributions to its benefits fund
for laid-off workers and softened
its previous stand-roundly criti-
cized by the union-calling
workers to share in health
surance costs.
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BUT THE OFFER still made
no mention o a priority de-
mand for reducing work time
to preserve current jobs and
create new ones. Both sides
agreed that issue must be dealt
with to avoid a strike.
The UAW has said it is work-
ing toward a four-day work
week several years down the
road, and hopes to establish a
foundation for that program
through its reduced work time
demand this year.
Ford is the UAW's target for
setting the auto industry pat-
tern on new three-year agree-
ments covering a total of 700,000
workers. Current contracts with
the other makers have been ex-
tended indefinitely pending a
settlement at the No. 2 auto-
maker.
FORD'S LATEST offer upped
its previous general wage hikel
from an average 52 cents an
hour over three years to 58 /
cents, plus 9 cents an hour to
be used either as a first-year pay
boost or to help finance fringe
benefits. The average Ford
worker now makes $6.88 an hour
exclusive of overtime or shift
differentials.
Ford also proposed hiking con-
tributions to its Supplemental
Unemployment Benefits (SUB)
fund from a current 9 to 12
cents per worker hour to be-
tween 12 and 22 cents. Ford
also would add up to $10 million
to the fund if it is exhausted by
more extensive layoffs.
SUB, when combined with
government jobless benefits,
gives laid-off workers nearly 95
per cent of their take-home pay
for up to a year.
Woodcock said the improve-
ments in the second offer were
virtually cancelled out by new
restrictions.
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia () -
Five Yugoslav air traffic con-
trollers were taken into custody
for questioning yesterday about
how two airliners supposedly
under their control could have
met head-on at a combined
speed of 1,200 miles per hour in
the worst air collision in avia-
tion history.
The controllers were all on
duty Friday at the time of the
collision, which killed all 171
persons aboard a British Air-
ways Trident 3 and a chartered
Yugoslav DC9. The debris killed
a Yugoslav woman working on
her farm.
THE PLANES were cruising
in a clear sky at 32,800 feet, in
one of the busiest air corridors
in the world.
A Yugoslav judge who is in
charge of the investigation said
the controllers had probably in-
correctly judged the altitudes
of the two planes.
A spokesperson for the Yugo-
slav charter company Inex-
Adria, which owned the DC9,
indirectly blamed the controllers
for the crash. He said planes at
that altitude were the "absolute
responsibility" of controllers at
Zagreb.
Collin Allen, a member of the
British investigation team, said
the Trident's two "black boxes,"
or flight recorders, were re-
covered and would be examined
today. He said their contents
would be made public only if
full light can be shed on the
causes of disaster.
BRITISH Airways officials
said in London that all docu-
ments and recordings of con-
versations between the Zagreb
tower and the pilots of the two
planes were impounded by Yu-
goslav authorities.
Joe Kroese, the Dutch pilot of
a German Lufthanea Airline
plane, said he witnessed the
collision. He said he was flying
at 29,000 feet, during a tripe
from Frankfurt to Belgrade,
when he saw the two jets slam
headon into each other.
The Yugoslav plane burst into
pieces, he said. The British
plane lost a wing, floated briefly
in the sky, then the cockpit
broke off and the wreckage
plunged to the ground.
PIECES OF the planes, bodies
and luggage rained over a large
area of farmland near Zagreb.
The bodies, some charred be-
yond recognition and others in
pieces were taken to Zagreb's
medical institute for identifica-
tion. Officials said despite pas-
senger lists, some bodies were
damaged so badly there may be
difficulty identifying them.
A spokesperson for British
Airways said relatives of the
victims were asked not to travel
to Zagreb until tomorrow so
recovery work could be com-
pleted.
British Airways began releas-
ing the names of the 54 passen-
jgers and nine crewmembers
aboard its plane, which was on
a direct flight between London
and Istanbul. It said three
Americans were on the passen-
ger list, but their names were
not among the first group re-
leased.
MOST OF the other passen-
gers were Britons and Turks.
The Yugoslav plane, bound
from Split to Cologne, was
carrying 107 West German tour-
ists, one young Yugoslav man
who boarded at the last minute,
and five crewmembers.
Yugoslav courts have given
stiff sentences in the past to
persons convicted of being at
fault in fatal accidents. After a
1974 train derailment in Zagreb,
the locomotive engineer was
sentenced to 15 years in jail and
his assistant to eight years.
Both had admitted falling asleep
and allowing the train to gain
too much speed.
Mark Lambert, editor of the
British aviation magazine Flight
International, said he had never
heard any criticism of Zagreb
air traffic control.
A BRITISH civil aviation of-
ficial said international regula-
tions require that planes be
separated by at least 1,000 feet
if they are below 29,000, and by
2,000 feet if they are above
that level. There also must be
several miles of horizontal sep-
aration, he said.
"Things happen very quickly
in an aircraft cockpit," said
Mark Young, secretary of the
British Airline Pilots Associa-
tion. "A plane can crash into
you from outside your field of
visionfrom underneath, for in-
stance. Air traffic controllers
are responsible for keeping air-
craftwell apart. The system
normally works-that's all you
can say."
Daily Official Bulletin
Sunday, September 12, 1976
Day Calendar
TV Ctr: "Where Are Women Go.
ing?" channel 4, noon.
WUOM: "Options in Education,"
by Inst for Educ Leadership, Geo.
washington U & Nat'l Public Radio,
21 pm.
Monday, September 13, 1976
WUOM: "Point of Order," by
Emile de Antonio & Daniel Talbot,
narrated by Eric Sevareid, 10 am.
WCBN: "Women's Hour: Survey
of Women's Studies Courses," 6
pm.
Music School: Carillon concert by
Albert Gerken, Burton Tower, 7 pm.
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