International Labor Affairs Manager (Retired)
World Headquartwrs, Dearborn
Served in a variety of labor relations positions working with the UAW, beinning in the Ford Tractor and Implement Division. Corporate staff representative in resolving plant-level strike notices. Co-ordinator of critical 1961 plant-level UAW negotiations in all United States plants. As first international labor affairs manager in any world-wide company, monitored and reported on labor relations in more than fifty settings on five continents. Assured inter-affiliate exchange of worthy solutions to labor questiions. Member of Ford Flying Faculty, which visited United States universities to discuss industry issues with faculties and students. Corporate representative for labor issues in three national business organizations; sometime chair of industrial relations committee, National Foreign Trade Council. Wrote union relations section of 1974 Sullivan Principles for mitigation of apartheid among employees in South Africa. Active in business commitee developing employer positions in debates leading to instruments adopted by the United Nations International Labor Organization.