Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Associate Professor of Economics Elisabeth S. Allison, head section person of Ec 10, gave the three-hour test last week to 83 students selected from three groups: self-paced students, students from regular sections, and students who have never taken the course...
Rhoda. Rhoda gets married; CBS gives her an extra 30 minutes to celebrate, or whatever. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 1 hour...
Firing Line. Buckley, former N.Y. Timesman Tad Szulc and Jorge Mas discuss resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba. Ch. 44, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table and grape industry were earning only $1.15 per hour...
...between 1968 and 1970 that the growers, under increasing fear that the Union (UFW) would be successful, began to increase the wages. Therefore, the average farm worker in the grapes was earning $1.65 per hour. Yes, a $.10 increase, BUT also a medical plan (growers never provided a medical plan); ranch committees which would report health and safety violations (remember the UFW was first to ban the use of DDT in its contracts), replace the farm labor contractor with a hiring hall, grievance procedures to make sure the grower complied with the complaints of the workers; plus...