Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risen once again and that inflation was continuing. With an assist from the Nixon Administration, a steel strike was averted at the last moment, but inevitably at an inflationary cost. Within 24 hours after the wage settlement was announced, most of the big steel producers posted a price hike. After 18 disruptive days, the nationwide rail strike was brought to an end. Though many featherbedding work rules were finally eliminated, the United Transportation Union extracted a 42% pay increase spread out over 42 months...
...rail strike is a case in point. Though already granted a 42% wage hike, the United Transportation Union was resisting changes in costly and long-obsolete work rules, fearing they would lead to a restricting of both income and jobs. Nixon did summon leaders of both sides to express his concern, and Mc-Cracken explained that if the walkout continues through August it would reduce the anticipated gross national product by $50 billion-three times the cost of the General Motors strike. Although the usual emergency legislation to stop a rail strike was prepared, by week's end Nixon...
...workday, the union is determined to keep its pay scale tied fairly close to that 100-mile base. (The union made a deal late last week with one railway, the Chicago and North Western, to modify the 100-mile rule in some circumstances-in return for a 42% wage hike over the next 31 years...
...stories are understandably something of a letdown. The Fabulous Five, Doc's "companions in adventure and excitement," are said to be "the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo known as Heck Noe (humor...
...recently declared that the industry's healthy net profits, which last year rose 102% to an estimated $46.8 million, entitled his members to a rich raise. "We are going to get more because the coal industry can afford more," said Boyle. Among his early demands are a 35% hike in wages, to $50 a day, paid sick leave and doubling the 400 "royalty" on each ton of coal that mining companies must pay to the union pension fund. But few industry leaders expect that the miners will settle for even that package. If only to unite the membership, they...