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Shimko should talk to Dick Heilman, 52, who went to work at Weirton Steel in 1948. Heilman would hate to forgo any of the perks, among them free dental care and double pay for overtime, let alone lose 32% of his $29,000 pipefitter's salary. But, he says, "it's different when you're working for yourself. The minute it was announced that we were going to buy the plant, I noticed people in my section working longer and taking shorter breaks. There's a lot we can do without...
...swing through the Middle East. A P.L.O. evacuation plan had been drawn up early last week by Colonel Johnny Abdo, head of Lebanese army intelligence, and Hani al Hassan, Arafat's political adviser. The P.L.O. was pleased with the Habib proposals, even though the Palestinians had to forgo the staged withdrawal they preferred by way of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and thence to Syria...
...leave a deficit of at least $105 billion. Democrats are refusing to support any tax increase at all in an election year. Some had hoped to repeal the final the President's three-year program to reduce individual income taxes by 25%. But Reagan has stubbornly refused to forgo that slash and apparently has the support to keep it intact...
...relatively small unions managed to wring average first-year wage increases of 7% or more from their employers. But the two biggest unions in the study were far more accommodating. Both the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Ford Motor Co. members of the United Auto Workers agreed to forgo any wage increases in order to help hold down costs and prevent further layoffs in their recession-squeezed industries. With 335 major wage contracts covering 1.4 million unionized workers coming up for negotiation in the current quarter, a continuation of the wage restraint would be the best evidence that...
Twenty administrators have notified President John X. Jamrich that they will forgo salary increases for 1982-83 and take days off without pay to help achieve a budget reduction of about $3 million. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported recently...