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...final negotiating session, restaurant owners asked workers to accept a wage freeze and a ten cent pay increase in place of health insurance, said union President Domenie M. Bozzotto...
...relationship with the President, his campaign argues, represents the "Illinois Advantage": Percy's got clout in the White House and can help bring jobs to Illinois. He touts the economic "miracle" of 1981-84. Yet during these "miraculous" years, the Illinois unemployment rate has risen from 8.1 per cent to 8.7 per cent. The state has lost more than 250,000 jobs in manufacturing industries alone. How's that for clout...
...strike in an attempt to win a 330 an hour pay hike. Three months after the walkout began, Reuther was willing to accept an increase of 19.5?, but GM offered only 18.5?. As William Serrin recounts the story in The Company and the Union, the GM negotiator placed a cent on the bargaining table and said: "Walter, there it is, a penny. That's what this strike is all about. And you're not going to get it." Reuther never did. Thirty days later, he settled...
...neither Alfonsín nor any other leader can simply defy the fund. Its seal of approval is the key to vital commercial credit. "The power of the IMF is absolute," says Paul Singer, an economist at the University of Sao Paulo. "No foreign country can get a single cent now without an extended agreement with...
...June.) In addition, Kowet turned over the Stringer tape, and 36 others, to Westmoreland's attorneys. Kowet argues that the material had been subpoenaed by the general's lawyers, and adds that he did not resist the demand because "I am not going to spend one red cent in defense...