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Like the famed "bullet train" that rockets from Tokyo to Kyoto at 125 m.p.h., Japanese wage rates are rushing ahead at a speed unmatched anywhere else. In last month's shunto, or "spring offensive," Japanese unions won pay raises for 35 million workers averaging 31.4%-the biggest across-the-board increase on record for any industrialized society. The boosts will place many once lowly paid Japanese workers on a par with their European counterparts. The typical steel worker's pay (not including fringe benefits) rose from the 1973 level of $493 a month to $650. Auto workers...
...printers from locals 300 and 16 are striking for a wage hike of at least 5.9 per cent plus a $10 per week across-the-board increase...
Sources in the department and close to the executive committee yesterday called the personnel decisions "an across-the-board sweep" of the department's leading teachers...
...year was necessary for urban working families of four to have a "modest but comfortable" standard of living in 1970. It is obscene that Harvard bureaucrats earning over $25,000 per year should ask these 31 people to take a wage cut. The union demands for an across-the-board $10-per-week pay raise in addition to the Harvard offer of 5.9 per cent would allow the printers to catch up with inflation to some degree, and to narrow the $45-per-week gap between the pay of the Harvard printers and that of comparable unionized workers in commercial...
...into disarray. Since Shultz announced that he will leave in May, key officials have strayed from the Administration's economic line or even collided with it head on. Cost of Living Council Chief John Dunlop, for example, once indicated willingness to accept stand-by authority to reimpose across-the-board wage-price controls. Though Congress is moving instead to kill controls altogether (see following story), Dunlop's stand briefly upset other Administration planners, including Shultz, who want controls to die. One Government economist grumbles: "Dunlop would never have done what he has been doing before Shultz announced...