Word: benefitting
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People whose annual incomes fluctuate widely would no longer have the benefit of income averaging. They would have to pay tax each year on that year's income at standard (but in most cases lower) rates...
United Auto Workers (UAW) organizers, who are currently trying to garner the support of some 3 500 University clerical and technical workers for a 1986 union election, said the new dental plan--which will benefit all 3 500 workers--was a response to their unionization campaign...
Workers interviewed say the four-month-long Yale University strike last year will help Harvard's drive. In New Haven, 2,600 clerical and technical workers walked out of their jobs at the end of September after wage, benefit and job security negotiations broke down. Food service and maintenance workers of AFL-CIO Local 35 later joined the strike, which soon attracted national attention. Yale University dining halls and libraries closed, students picketed with workers, and faculty members moved classes off campus so as not to break picket lines. The university and the union representing Yale's clerical and technical...
...like wages, sexual harrassment and Massachusetts Hall administrators. Harvard officials say the poll was an effort to improve working conditions, but union organizers quickly called it a tool to test the degree of their activity among workers. A chief UAW beef is the absence of a dental plan, a benefit that Steiner has said is on its way in the near future...
...either way, the long-term political benefits that could result from simply proposing a tax-reform plan are significant. By casting the Republicans as the party that defied the special interests for the benefit of the ordinary voter, Reagan hopes to re-establish the G.O.P. as the majority party for the first time in more than half a century. Optimistic Republican strategists believe they can finally rid the party of the country-club conservative label that has clung to it since the days of Coolidge and Hoover. "The President has in his hands the weapon with which to forever dismantle...