ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the continuing effects of automation on collective bargaining in the newspaper industry as an example of the systemic significance of automation. The difficult collective bargaining problems caused by rapid technological change involve the most crucial of the legitimate interests of labor and management. The effects of the new technology on the printing industry have only just begun. Detailed proposals about the introduction of new equipment over a period of time in the three composing operations were made, debated, and rejected. Every legal strategy and tactic of collective bargaining that companies and unions have developed was utilized, including court injunctions, and a few methods perhaps technically outside the law were used as well. Collective bargaining has, in the process, successfully resolved problems of the first magnitude for New York City, center of the publishing and communications industries, and for our society.
