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
62．______ 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
63．______ automation, unions have adopted
a number of new policies. One of these is the promotion of supplementary
employment benefit
64．______ plans. It is emphasized that since the employer involved with
such 65．______ a plan has a direct financial
interest in preventing unemployment, he would have a strong drive for
planning new installments so as to 66．______ cause
the less possible problems in jobs and job assignment. Such
67．______ unions are working for dismissal pay agreements,
required that 68．______ permanently
dismissed workers are paid a sum of money based
69．______ on length of service. Another approach
is the idea of the "improvement factor", that calls for wage increases based
70．______ on
increases in productivity. It is possible, however, that labor will rely
mainly on reduction in working hour in order to gain
71．______ a full share in the fruits of automation.