Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the new militancy among Government employees is unquestionably a response to the success of the postal workers' illegal strike; part reflects the increasing sense of anxiety among blue-collar workers everywhere. The mood is also a reaction to the mixed benefits and frustrations of the civil service system itself. Working for the Government ordinarily offers great job security, but this attraction has been somewhat dimmed by large cutbacks in employment in the Defense Department and NASA. Government employees can eat 750 lunches in federal cafeterias, take yearly 26-day vacations after 15 years and-the biggest lure...
...these benefits, the federal worker puts up with inflexible work rules that hamper his initiative and a rigid salary system that limits his ambition. The 15-grade scale, which covers the overwhelming bulk of white-collar civil servants, runs from G51 for messengers, who start at $4,125, to GS-15 for program managers, who begin at $22,885. A medical aide (GS-2) makes $4,125 to start, and a typist (GS-3) $5,212. There are virtually no merit increases, and the periodic raises within each category are small. It would take 18 years for a worker...
Williams then appointed her to a judgeship in Detroit. In 1954 she ran again for Congress and earned a measure of masculine appreciation by daily driving a car and campaign trailer through her predominantly blue-collar district on Detroit's northwest side. She won, despite primary opposition from the United Auto Workers union. Candidate Griffiths was helped by her husband, a former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, and by Williams. "Soapy and I were the happy extra-verts and ran around shaking hands," she recalls. "But my husband knew how to get things done...
...display the Weltschmerz that afflicts liberal arts students, who worry about the contrast between U.S. ideals and realities. This is even truer of youngsters who still go straight from high school to work, war and marriage?certified adults at 18 or 19. To be sure, the children of blue-collar workers increasingly diverge from their parents over hair, dress and the use of pot, which is spreading in hardhat high schools. But politics is another matter: blue-collar children seem to be just as "conservative" as their parents...
...overall approval rating last week, highest in six months, but Nixon has been regularly getting his lowest popularity marks for his handling of the economy. If the economy does not turn around sufficiently in the second half of 1970, great numbers of Nixon's newfound blue-collar supporters could well vote Democratic in the November congressional elections...