Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floor on the Downside. He proposed that wages be tied to living costs. His offer to G.M.'s 225,000 workers was a flat 3?-an-hour increase now, plus an 8? hourly boost which would increase or decrease as the cost of living rose or fell. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumers' price index rises, G.M. would add 1? to wages for each 1.14 points of higher prices.* If the index falls, 1? would be subtracted on the same scale. But there would be a floor on the downside; no more than 5? would...
Another blow was a boost in admission prices. But mostly the fans grumbled to each other that baseball games in Ebbets Field no longer even looked very much like baseball: the games dragged, the pitching was terrible, the Dodger line-up was forever shifting and changing, team morale was drooping...
Three days later, help came from CAB. It granted T.W.A. a 110% boost in its foreign mail pay to $6,300,000 a year, retroactive to Jan. i. T.W.A. thus got $1,100,000, exactly what it needed to shoo the wolf away. But T.W.A. was in such bad shape that this was no guarantee that the wolf would stay shooed for long...
Blow the Whistle. The current fight had begun last fall when all the railroad brotherhoods were agitating for wage increases. Some 1,000,000 workers in 17 non-operating brotherhoods accepted a 15½?-an-hour boost. Two operating brotherhoods with 250,000 members (trainmen and conductors) also accepted the 15½? boost...
...engineers, firemen and switchmen (representing 190,000 railway employees), held out. These three wanted a 30% boost and numerous changes in work, overtime and vacation rules which the railways estimated would add $500 million to payrolls. The issues were complicated. Negotiation, conciliation failed to resolve them. It was a situation for impartial judges to decide...