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...union is demanding an increase of 75? an hour in the first year and 50? in each of the next two years. Members now earn about $9.40 an hour, and long-distance drivers can make $30,000 a year. The drivers are also asking for bigger employer contributions to benefit plans and larger cost-of-living boosts. In all, the demands would come to a three-year increase of 35% to 38%, well above the guidelines...
When reality does break through it can be deeply self-abusive and cynical. A Soviet journalist tells Bukovsky that he is happy with Communism because it allows him to earn a good living writing demagogic rubbish. "In a normal country," he says, "they wouldn't let me within a mile of the press! What would I be do ing? Working as a navvy." The most pervasive reality, bureaucratic absurdity, al lows Bukovsky to score even in the last wild moments of his captivity...
...perhaps difficult for many Americans to understand that corporations in South Africa have not been, and will not be, a force for fundamental change. First, it must not be overlooked that multinational corporations locate in South Africa in large part because of the opportunity to earn a rate of return far in excess of that available in their home countries. These extra profits are in turn made possible by the existence of a large, non-union, underpayed non-white labor force deprived of elemental civic, political and legal rights and protections...
Unlike the swimmers, the divers don't have the luxury of a three-week break until NCAAs. They must earn the privilege of participating at nationals at an Eastern regional qualifying meet at Blodgett this weekend. "The competition there is a little stronger than this weekend's." Greacen says, "but we're both confident that we can qualify on both boards...
Last year, Raiffa closed the course with these words: "When we see we could improve our profit or further maximize our desired result, we might ask, Is this a 'dirty dollar' or a 'clean one' that we could earn here? What would happen if everybody did this? Would we be able to sleep at night if we did this? How would we feel if we had to explain this to our families...