Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor's watchword. In 1961 (the last year on which statistics are available), there were 250 strikes in which job security was a central issue. It is a crucial issue in the aerospace industry. The argument over the size of work gangs brought on the recent East Coast dock strike. The job-security issue last year caused flight engineers to strike against the airlines, and job security is a cause of continuing controversy in the railroad industry...
Olivier is the sole ace in this nearyarborough, but he is superb. After all, he's been playing Prometheus in various guises since Richard III, and Weir is a worthy successor to Archie Rice of The Entertainer. The high point of the film is his accusation from the dock, an indictment of English life for being stuffy, unsympathetic, and dirty-minded, as powerful a speech in its way as was the song "Why Should I Bother to Care?" that Rice sang in the other film. Sir Laurence points up the full character of the schoolteacher so well that at times...
...Spurring the market's expectations were President Kennedy's request for the largest federal budget in history and his tax-cut proposals, which will help spur investment even while they contribute to a near-record peacetime deficit. And the Washington-dictated inflationary settlement of th East Coast dock strike led Wall Streeters to surmise that the brakes were at last off on labor's demands...
...Atlantic and Gulf Coast dock strike was one of the longest and costliest in U.S. maritime history. It left 100,000 workers idle, including 62,000 striking longshoremen, cost $700 million and created dislocations, small or large, in almost every industry in the nation. Last week, after 33 days, the strike ended-but the settlement caused almost as much commotion and concern as the strike itself...
...dock industry, where the longshoremen's prestrike hourly base of $3.02 (plus fringe benefits) put their wages in the top 8% of U.S. hourly workers, the new settlement called for a 39?-an-hour package increase over the next two years -17? more than management offered, 11? less than labor asked. This is roughly a 5% to 6% increase a year, while industry's productivity is increasing only 2% to 3% yearly and longshoreman productivity is actually declining. Meanwhile, the agreement did nothing about the featherbedding "work gang rules" that management claims are holding productivity down. This question...