Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the first hopeful development in the revolt. During the debate, Pompidou had gently urged that the labor leaders sit down with him to talk about a settlement. Séguy sent a message that he was ready to bargain; the leaders of the two other big unions expressed similar sentiments. The unions also formulated their demands: a 50% minimum-wage hike, a 40-hour week (v. 45 to 48 hours at present), improved medical benefits, retirement at 60 (v. 65). Such bargaining might yet lead France back into a rational, if highly inflationary, world...
...long as they are based on equal gains in productivity. She was quick to applaud just that kind of an agreement recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between Rootes Motors and two unions. She also hopes to encourage companies to establish management-labor committees on productivity. Her plan has some merit: British productivity has for years been the despair of economists, who equally blame rigid labor attitudes and casual management policies for the laggard pace of modernization in industry...
...Britain's postwar welfare state. She has a tongue like a stiletto when she needs it, and once goaded Tory M.P. Peter Walker into comparing her to Dickens' Madame Defarge. "Madame Guillotine," he called her. "All that's missing is the knitting." As her friends from Labor's left have learned, she is first and foremost a Wilson loyalist, having served him as parliamentary private secretary when he was Board of Trade president from 1947 to 1951 and as a member of his Cabinet since 1964. He can use her support now more than ever before...
...former vice dean of the Harvard Law School, Magruder was a general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board 1934-35 and of the Wage-Hour Division of the Labor Department...
Under whatever label, Harrington still puts in compulsive 16-hour days carrying his message to labor unions, college kids, civil rights groups and social-welfare organizations. He makes about ten speeches a month, and will be a principal speaker at the Poor People's March in Washington this month. Greying and intense, he delivers the word like an old-line Socialist trained by Jesuits...