New York Times, "Ford Health Pact Voids Strike Vote" (1946)

A clipping from The New York Times of November 18, 1946, datelined Detroit. Local 600 of the United Automobile Workers voted to ratify an agreement with the Ford Motor Company making plant health hazards a subject of negotiation, and withdrew a thirty-day strike notice. The dispute began when workers in the open hearth department at the Rouge plant objected to the use of sodium fluoride in making steel, saying the fumes were harmful; the company denied the hazard. Under the agreement the union could bring its own health experts into the plant, and unsettled health disputes would go to the permanent umpire.

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"Ford Health Pact Voids Strike Vote." Article describes strike by Ford workers objecting to the use of sodium flouride in the manufacturing of steel. Workers contended that the fumes of sodium flouride were harmful. The strike was settled when an agreement calling for the negotiation of plant health problems was accepted by union and management.

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This is document 05649 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.