Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snub from Labor. To do all that, one of the first places Wilson and Shore may have to show some muscle is in dealing with Britain's featherbedding unions. Southern Region Railway men, for example, are threatening a 24-hour strike this month because some train drivers have lost pay as unprofitable service has been curtailed. But handling such problems will be difficult. The powerful Trades Union Congress has gone so far as to snub the Prime Minister by not even asking him to address its annual meeting this week...
...payments problem by a deflationary squeeze that hit the public first with tighter credit and a wage freeze, then hit it again with rising prices. Said Tory Leader Ted Heath in a burst of unusual asperity: "The country should explode with anger at the stupidity and incompetence of this Labor government, which stands paralyzed while unemployment of its own creation mounts...
...large depots in Mexico City, they can order prefabricated steel frames, desks, blackboards, a basic 50-book library, toilet and shower, and quarters for a teacher. The village pays a third of the cost (about $400), supplies such wall material as concrete, adobe or brick, and provides the labor to assemble the structure, which can be put together in a few days. "Knowing that they have contributed," explains Construction Engineer Enrique Estrada, "gives villagers a sense of pride and ownership...
...custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown's Schooldays: the tradition of "six of the best" for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still essential equipment for every self-respecting headmaster, public indignation against corporal punishment is on the rise, and the Labor government would like to abolish it for good...
Faced with sagging profits and mounting costs (Chrysler last week announced that prices for its 1968 cars will rise by an average $125, whatever the outcome of the labor-management battle), the industry did in some ways seem generous. By their own reckoning, the Big Three offered a package that would amount to a 5.2% annual increase in labor costs. Wages would go up by 13? an hour during the first year, by an average of 12? an hour during each of the next two years. For the typical G.M. worker, who earned $7,885 in 1966, this would boost...