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...Malin should get an enforced decision, the maximum possible remedy would be reinstatement and full back pay plus about 12 per cent interest. There are no punitive damages. But any income Malin receives in the interim is deducted from the settlement...
...there are signs around the country that other unions are envious of the 50-per-cent representation in pension boards common to the building trades, trucking and other multi-employer industries. The International Chemical Workers have succeeded in placing a watchdog representative on one board and gaining joint control on another. In March the bargaining council of the Communication Workers of America voted to demand "effective union participation in pension fund investment policies...
Sullivan, in his preamble to the budget, said, "It is virtually impossible to maintain the level of municipal services and stay within the 4-per-cent...
...Reagan can win in New Hampshire (and running against a scattered field of opponents he can do so easily just by holding onto a large chunk of the 48 per cent of Republican votes he received in the 1976 primary there); if he can make a better than expected minority showing against George Bush in Massachusetts; if he can bury Connally by strong wins in South Carolina and Florida, and then carry Illinois--then he just might be able to coast all the way to the convention after March 18th...
Conservative economists and scholars, for example, have systematically underestimated the maldistribution of wealth and income in the United States. Money is highly concentrated--less than half of one per cent of Americans own more assets than do four-fifths of everyone else--but few people acknowledge it. By overestimating the value of social security and welfare benefits and disregarding hidden assets of wealthy Americans, conservative economists have narrowed income and wealth stratification statistics. After all the carping about the "welfare state," less than half of the nation's poor are supported solely be welfare funds. These misperceptions have pitted working...