Word: contract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regularly runs to more than 100 ad-rich pages a week, and grossed almost $2 million in 1978. Ad revenues at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Reader (no relation) were up 410% in 1977 and 298% last year. Seattle's Weekly (circ. 15,000) won a contract to print the program for the visiting King Tut exhibit, and the Ithaca (N. Y.) Times and the local Chamber of Commerce collaborate to publish a calendar every summer. There is even an alternative chain: the Times/Advocate Newspapers, with papers serving western Massachusetts (circ. 85,000), New Haven and Hartford, Conn, (each...
...long-distance rigs were barreling along U.S. highways last week in near normal numbers. The powerful Teamsters union and the trucking industry had agreed on a new master contract, ending a ten-day strike and lockout that drastically curtailed transportation of goods and threatened many manufacturing industries. In all, the union and the industry estimate that the contract will give 270,000 drivers and warehouse workers an increase of more than 30% in wages and fringe benefits over three years. That is well above the Carter Administration's wage-guideline limit of 7% a year. But the Council...
...They will also get an additional $1.09 for benefits, like health insurance. Assuming an average inflation rate of 6% over the next three years, as the Administration optimistically does, the cost of living payment would add another 830 and bring the total wage and benefit increase for the contract to $3.42 an hour...
Blackburn charged the city was taking unfair advantage of the transient state of the doctors and interns by stalling contract negotiations...
State Rep. Barney Frank told a rally of 250 clerical workers yesterday he will ask guest lecturers and performing artists not to provide services to the university until it agrees to open contract negotiations with the unions...