Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...25th big-league campaign, dabbling with a new pitch, trying his hand as a submariner. The most enchanting apparition of the spring is Masanori ("Mashi") Murakami, a Japanese lefthander who mystically reappeared with the San Francisco Giants. Mashi has more English now than the all-purpose phrase "Take a hike," taught to him by his San Francisco teammates in 1965, the year of his short, happy spin through American baseball, when his record was 4-1. Patriotism required Murakami's presence in Japan all the seasons since, but now he is back in a cactus camp, no more inclined...
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...