Double Overtime Seen Irrevocable Job Curb
An automobile industry spokesman told Congress yesterday that double overtime pay, if once tried as a weapon against unemployment, could never be abandoned. And he said it might actually reduce some workersÛª employment.</br></br>xneoaore cj. rntema, vice president of Ford Motor Co., told a House Labor .ÏÒsubcommittee that overtime at some seasons in the automobile industry and short hours at others balance out to a satisfactory annual income. Ynte-ma appeared as spokesman for the Automobile Manufacturers Association.</br></br>He said that once double pay instead of time and a half for overtime were instituted, it would be ÛÏsuch a juicy plum that unions would have to fight for it, both in collective bargaining and in their lobbying activities.Û ;</br></br>The inevitable results, Ynte-ma contended, would be pressure to extend the system, inequities among individuals and business, inflationary price increases and dilution of the economic benefits of the tax cut.</br></br>President Johnson has proposed that double overtime be established in some selected industries on the recommen dation of labor-management public committees. The ides would be to encourage the hiring of more workers