The result of automation may well be an increase in
employment, since it is expected that vast industries will grow
up around manufacturing, maintaining, and repairing automation
equipment. The interest of labor lies in bringing about the transition
with a minimum of convenience and distress to the workers 【S1】______.
involved. Also, union spokesmen emphasize that the benefit of
the increased production and lower costs made possible by
automation should be shared by workers in the form. of higher
wages, more leisure, and improved living standards.
To protect the interests of its members in the era of 【S2】______.
automation, unions have adopted a number of new policies. One
of these is the promotion of supplementary employment benefit 【S3】______.
plans. It is emphasized that since the employer involved with such 【S4】______.
a plan has a direct financial interest in preventing unemployment,
he would have a strong drive for planning new installments so as to 【S5】______.
cause the less possible problems in jobs and job assignment. Such 【S6】______.
unions are working for dismissal pay agreements, required that 【S7】______.
permanently dismissed workers are paid a sum of money based 【S8】______.
on length of service. Another approach is the idea of the
"improvement factor", that calls for wage increases based 【S9】______.
on increases in productivity. It is possible, however, that labor
will rely mainly on reduction in working hour in order to gain 【S10】______.
a full share in the fruits of automation.
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