Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor increased its share of the vote to 48.1%. That represented an impressive 8.1% increase over its 1966 snowing, but was not quite enough. The closeness of the vote was a rebuke to Gorton, and as the week ended, several leading party members announced their refusal to serve under the P.M. There was widespread speculation that Gorton...
Leisure time? "The 30-hour work week will not come. People will enter the labor market later and later as education grows. And they may retire earlier, but they will continue to take their benefits in the form of money rather than a shorter week...
UNITED STATES labor leaders have declared war on the Nixon Administration's anti-inflation wage strategy, and the first big battle is the strike against General Electric Co. Last week a dozen unions representing 147,000 G.E. workers banded together and struck the company's 280 plants in 33 states. It was the first nationwide strike against G.E. since 1946. There was some violence on the picket lines as union men scuffled with police...
...resisting inflationary wage and price increases rather than relying on White House "jawbone." General Electric, the fourth largest manufacturer in the country, is notorious among union men for its stiff take-it-or-leave-it negotiating tactics. Thus, G.E. seemed an ideal battlefield on which to Jet management and labor fight to a settlement while the Administration watched from the sidelines...
Olympian Unconcern. Union economists argue that the worker has been hardest hit by inflation and is the one who will get squeezed the most in a tighter economy. A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany said last week that labor would not buy Nixon's call for wage moderation. He promised labor will continue to press for more and more, as prices continue to rise. In major contracts negotiated through September, the median increase in wages and fringes has jumped to 8.1% as against 6.6% for last year; in the construction trades, it is 12.5%. These are the kinds of increases...