Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steel itself, it has turned in handsome after-tax profits of 5.7% to 9.5% on its sales every year since 1953. Part of the reason is that Big Steel has followed every wage hike since World War II-except those negotiated in early 1960-with an even bigger price rise...
...action was taken last night in response to strong complaints about the recently announced ten per cent hike in room rents...
room rent increases after had already chosen the coming year was thoughtless, and stupid," officials admitted yesterday. Wiggins, administrative said that "it never occurred warn Masters that rising labor necessitate the ten per cent, board hike...
...either studied the problem or ever tried to get cross-town takes issue with this view--no one, that is, except Mr. Weinberg. After taking charge, he not only requested a price hike (from the present 15 cents to 20 cents); he called for a drastic cut-back in personnel, and suggested sharply reduced service (nothing after 11 p.m., little on Sunday). In protest against the dismissal of twenty-nine employees (which it interpreted as the beginning of a real purge), the TWU struck Mr. Weinberg, and the Mayor demanded fast action by the State on legislation enabling...
McDonald wanted a token wage hike plus a many-fringed package to soften layoffs and spread the work: bigger unemployment benefits, longer vacations, higher pensions, and 13-week sabbaticals for 20-year veterans. Management estimated that this would add up to 14? or 15? an hour, or a boost in labor costs of at least 3.5%-somewhat more than the 3.1% annual rise in U.S. industrial productivity. The steel companies countered with a 5? to 7? proposal, or about 1.5%¶somewhat less than the steel industry's annual productivity gain of about...