A push for blue-collar salaries.

The article discusses the opening of negotiations for status and security for U.S. rubber industry workers through a guaranteed annual wage prior to the expiration of contracts on April 20, 1967. Negotiations will involve more than 70,000 members of the United Rubber Workers union employed by four major rubber companies. Expected benefits of a guaranteed annual wage include protecting blue-collar workers against wage loss during temporary layoffs and removing a source of status disparity between them and white-collar workers.