Word: colas
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TRUCKING. The Teamsters' last contract contained a cost of living adjustment (COLA) provision, but it had a "cap"-the adjustment could not exceed 110 an hour in any year. Now, Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons is demanding that the cap be removed. In addition, he opened negotiations last month asking for a $2.50-an-hour increase, spread over three years, in the truckers' minimum wage, which currently averages $7.11 nationwide. Chicago Teamster officials, who in the past have forced the national leadership to tear up newly negotiated contracts and bargain for higher terms, have indicated that this year they...
RUBBER. The contracts between the Big Four-Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and Uniroyal-and 69,000 members of the United Rubber Workers expire on April 20. Negotiations begin next week, and all signs point to a strike. The last U.R.W. contract included no COLA at all, and as a result the average hourly wage for rubber workers has fallen $1.35 behind that of automobile workers (who have been getting a cost of living increase). The union is demanding parity with auto workers' wages in addition to a "meaningful" further wage increase, a COLA clause and improvements in pension and insurance...
...were tuned into 13 media markets in Georgia and Florida and throughout the South. The first call comes in and one operator jumps up with a big grin and grabs the mike before somebody could do anything about and beamed 'We just received $5,000 from the Coca-Cola Company...
...Crimson has now deemed it appropriate to apply arbitrary standards to any advertisement, yet it has and will continue to run ads from companies such as Coca Cola whose corporate policies in regard to migrant workers are as offensive as Saudi Arabia's policy of racism. Why then single out Aramco...
...will suffer "the peace of the grave unless we are willing to say we will never be second to any nation on earth in our ability to defend ourselves." Détente: Its major result for the U.S. has been the "acquisition of the right to sell Pepsi-Cola in Siberia." SALT: "The cruise missile: Will it be removed from our defensive arsenal to win a smile from those who continue to pledge and promise our destruction...