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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similar matters of pride were at stake in the police and firemen's dispute. The police turned down an exceedingly generous contract-which, despite their cries for Daley, would give them a base pay level of $10,750 a year, considerably more than the Chicago cops, and a 14.6% boost over two years-not because it was too little, but because the firemen would be getting as much. The policemen protested that they should receive more because of the greater hazards of the job. Renewing an old status rivalry, the firemen declared that they would accept not a penny...
...cotton harvesters. Whether migrating, or working at seasonal labor in the Delano area, he had no job security, no defense against the high risk of injury in the fields. One of the union's first moves was to write a life insurance policy for every member, and each union contract signed so far contains carefully spelled-out guarantees of employment security...
After several months of wrangling, the School Committee and the City Council agreed on the relocatable classrooms, and this summer awarded a contract for them to Relocatable Homes Inc. of Winchester. The City is renting the buildings for two years, at a cost of $100,000 a year, from the Winchester firm. The City has an option to buy the buildings and keep them for other uses after the two years...
...government began claiming that IPC owed $144 million in back taxes, the total amount of profits that the company earned in Peru during the previous 15 years. Then the two sides struck the August compromise: Peru would take ownership of the fields, but IPC would help operate them under contract. Simultaneously, the government scrubbed its $144 million claim and gave IPC the right to expand its operations elsewhere. That was hardly the sort of get-tough deal favored by the rebellious military men-or by Peruvians in general...
...import oil to meet its needs, can ill afford to tamper with domestic oil sources. For the moment, Peru's militarists were in no mood to yield. But there is at least a chance that the junta, having scored a few political points, may eventually offer IPC a contract to run the oilfields, much as it has been doing for 44 years...