Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late in the week P.B.A. and city negotiators agreed on a settlement giving the police a 6% wage boost retroactive to Sept. 1 this year. That would bring the base pay of patrolmen to $17,458 (plus a cost-of-living hike). In exchange the P.B.A. would agree to drop its court suit. But the P.B.A. delegates rejected the pact, and later several thousand off-duty police, some hiding behind false noses, marched on city hall. That left the city facing not only the threat of more demonstrations and rowdyism, but that gravest of concerns: some form of police strike...
Instead, the impetus for the student protest came--as it did in Brown's 1975 anti-tuition-hike student walkout--from a small, active group of students. Bicks estimates that of Brown's approximately 4000 students, "only about 1000" actively support the union in the strike...
Others express a "them-or-us" attitude toward the labor dispute, which centers primarily on union wage demands. "My reasons for opposing the strikers' demands are simple," Jane Spectre, a junior, said this week. "If we give them a pay raise, we'll get a tuition hike...
...workers had originally requested a larger retroactive pay hike and an 18-month contract...
...Alabama's George Wallace was elected Governor in 1962 standing four-square on a platform against a state sales-tax increase. After he was elected, the legislature voted in favor of a tax hike, and House Speaker Albert Brewer visited the Governor to commiserate "because you'll have to veto it." Brewer later recalled: "He looked at me in silence for a moment and said, 'I'll just holler nigger and everybody will forget it.' And he did. And they did." In his 1963 inaugural speech, Wallace proclaimed: "Segregation now?segregation tomorrow?segregation forever." But on a November weekend...