Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Especially in the dining room and library departments is the pressure made clear. Whereas union waitresses hired on the outside receive one rate of pay and one type of meal allotment, student waiters and bus boys get a lower rate and a smaller number of free meals in the bargain. The fact that both groups do almost exactly the same work, under the same circumstances does not seem to enter into University calculations. The large turnover of part-time student workers may well be traced to dissatisfaction over this double standard...
American Newspaper Guild, had been trying to find somebody to bargain with in Springfield. Like Bowles's 517 employes, the Guild was sure Bowles was boss. But his three publishing companies had been ordered dissolved by 'the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and Bowles swore up & down that that left him just an advertising salesman. Fortnight ago, the NLRB told him to quit kidding and bargain with the Guild...
...thrown the truss boys, kidney-pill artists and goiter-curers out of the sheet, and have replaced them with such Class A advertisers as General Foods, Arm & Hammer and Sunshine Biscuits." (Last week's Parade also had a lurid full-page ad for a book bargain, Bachelor's Quarters and One of Cleopatra's Nights...
...week the Mayor's daughter was one of the strikers (they prefer to be known as "non-starters"). The nonstarters, well aware of a nationwide shortage of 125,000 teachers, took a full-page ad in the Norwalk Hour to say that they were tired of working at "bargain-basement prices." A North Carolina school superintendent promptly wired a bid for two eighth-grade teachers...
...Douglas MacArthur's first occupation acts was to grant Japanese workers the right to organize and bargain collectively. Last week he warned them not to abuse the privilege...