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...Easter season was getting under way. But the cost was enormous. Eastern had offered members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents 13,500 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground personnel at the airline, a 25% raise spread over two years, starting with a 6% hike in April. The union rejected that package. Instead it wound up with a 32% raise by 1984, including an immediate pay hike of 21% made retroactive to January. The base wage of Eastern's mechanics will rise from $13.15 per hour to $17.40, making them among the highest paid...
...sacrificing long enough. When the airline was nearly bankrupt in 1975, Borman persuaded his unions to take a one-year wage freeze. Over the past three years, they agreed to defer 3.5% of their pay because the airline was losing money. Now that mechanics have won a big pay hike, Eastern faces a new round of tough negotiations with its 6,300 flight attendants...
Cuomo's proposed budget for 1983-84 calls for a $250 tuition hike and a $150 increase in room rent which many students say will make a SUNY diploma prohibitively expensive. --The Oswegonian
Announcement of the rent hike comes one week after President Bok endorsed the recommendations of an ad hoc committee established to examine HRE's affiliate housing. One recommendation was to maintain the University's current policy of renting to students, faculty, and staff at market rates...
...White House turned bullish too. Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that the Administration would soon hike its forecast for this year's G.N.P. growth rate, from 3.1% to perhaps 5%. That optimism was buoyed by the news that the index of leading economic indicators jumped 3.6% in January, its biggest one-month gain in nearly 33 years. Oil prices could be magical at keeping inflation down. At $30, the price, adjusted for inflation, would be only 28% above its 1974 level...