Word: hikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines and prices decrease ridership on the "T" by more than 10 per cent, the fare hike will automatically be revoked, DiNatale said, adding that preliminary studies of passenger load are being conducted throughout the early fall...
...remember in their lifetimes, coupled with hard times, food shortages, long queues for essential commodities, and nagging uncertainty about the future. On the very day of Solidarity's anniversary, the government announced sharp increases in the price of bread and cereal. Since it was a meat-price hike that had led to prolonged unrest last year, and the subsequent birth of Solidarity, it was conceivable that the new increases would trigger protests. In fact there were none-perhaps because the public realized that bread prices had been unrealistically low. At 120 a loaf, bread had actually been cheaper than...
...monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled social protest." It was a threat the government could not take lightly: the issue of food prices, after all, had touched off the July 1980 strikes that in turn led to the birth of Solidarity. The government now says the union will...
...starting pay at one of the busy "birdcages" near New York, Chicago and Los Angeles is $37,000). On top of that, Poli wanted a twice-a-year, cost-of-living increase that would be 1½ times the rate of inflation. The FAA offered a $4,000 wage hike, which would have included a $1,700 increase as part of the 4.8% raise given all federal employees this year...
Just before the June 22 deadline, Lewis offered a $40 million package of improvements. It included a 10% pay hike for controllers who also act as instructors, an increase in the pay differential for nighttime work to 20%, from the present 10%, and a guaranteed 30-min. lunch period (controllers often munch sandwiches at their scopes when there is too much traffic for a break). Poli found the package insultingly stingy...