Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranged from a low of $103 to a high of $952,156. For example, it cited the disparities between the Los Angeles County districts of Baldwin Park and Beverly Hills. The latter, of course, is one of the wealthiest communities in the country, while Baldwin Park is a blue-collar, civil service suburb boxed in by industrial tax havens. According to 1968-69 figures, homeowners in Baldwin Park paid a relatively high school-tax rate of $5.48 per $100 of assessed property valuation, while in plush residential Beverly Hills owners were paying only $2.38. Yet even though Baldwin Park received...
Even today, many U.S. workers lag behind their European counterparts in vacation time. In West Germany, for ex ample, blue-collar workers get 31 weeks off, white-collar workers a month; some government employees are entitled to as much as six weeks of holiday time. The prime force in lengthening West German vacations has been the unions, which have given vacations equal priority with wages, pensions and fringe benefits...
...problem is faced by blue-collar and white-collar workers alike. One concerned group, for instance, is the 125,000-member Council of Engineers and Scientists, whose membership has been hard hit by mass layoffs in the aerospace industry. This week, as vacationing Congressmen meet their constituents, pensions will undoubtedly register high among the topics of voter concern. New York Senator Jacob Javits reports that his mail on the subject runs second only to Viet...
...recent months. It has proposed lower minimum wages for the young to help them get jobs. It is readying measures to loosen regulation and introduce more competition in the transportation industry. Last week the President indicated that he would veto a bill to raise wages for Government blue-collar workers. Yet Nixon and his aides are openly disappointed that the rate of inflation has not come down further and faster, and they show a growing if grudging receptiveness to new ideas...
...social, legal and economic factors. Women are getting more formal education-42% of last June's college graduates were women-and they want to put their degrees to work. Now that civil rights laws bar discrimination by sex, more and more women are demanding relatively high-pay, blue-collar jobs. Federal courts have ruled against companies that refused to hire women as railway agents and telephone switchmen. In the courts, women are now challenging a variety of work rules, including company policies against assigning women to premium-pay night work. Certainly discrimination exists, especially in the higher ranks...