Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Powers seems willing to go along with the union's anti-discrimination demands. But he insists that no one who takes sick leave is being harassed and that Harvard's current contract adequately protects workers against arbitrary dismissal Powers says he will offer the workers a "fair" pay hike, but maintains that they are already receiving the best wages and benefits of any food service workers in the Boston area...
...food service workers' three-year-contract with the University will expire June 19. The union has asked Harvard for a dollar-an-hour, across-the-board wage hike and free medical insurance for workers. Local 26 has introduced a set of "worker dignity" proposals such as a ban on possible subcontracting of food services...
...food service workers union has asked the University for an across-the-board dollar-on-hour wage hike and free medical insurance, as well as seniority-based promotions and a ban on subcontracting food service operations to outside catering agencies. The University has not yet released its proposals for contract changes...
...most evident in the Senate Budget Committee, chaired by New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici. The committee stuck to its earlier decision to limit next year's military spending to a real increase of 5%, even though Reagan aides had belatedly signaled that he might accept a 7.5% hike instead of the 10% that he has been demanding. It also recommended raising $267 billion in additional revenue over the next five years to avoid budget deficits of $200 billion or more each year. This new revenue was $60 billion more than the Administration had indicated it would accept...
Argentina suffers from 400% inflation, 18% unemployment and a foreign debt of $40 billion. Under these circumstances, the C.G.T. marshaled 95% of the work force to protest a government proposal to freeze prices and wages at 1,000 industrial companies. The union leaders also demanded a 15% wage hike to offset what they called impending "national disintegration...