Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many American businesses plan to stop work for the day, or a part of it. The four million member Alliance for Labor Action, formed by leaders of the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters Union, is backing the Moratorium...
Cesar Chavez, California labor leader, will speak at 7.30 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. (There will be a $1 admission charge...
...suggested a non-exclusionary coalition," Pollett said. "We want to co-operate on building unity for the antiwar movement. Since SMC had been working on the march and rally, and the Moratorium people were strong on community canvassing, there was an informal division of labor...
...this respect, Mr. Geoghegan's somewhat patronizing comment that Mr. Harrington gained the support of labor unions by promising "to campaign for stricter import quotas on foreign manufactures" is very unfortunate. The largest union in this district, the Electrical Workers, is not in the slightest interested in this question. Mike Harrington got substantial union support because he was a liberal Democrat, and the labor movement wants to see more liberal Democrats in the Congress. The issues of full employment, rebuilding the cities, and eliminating poverty which the labor movement is concerned with are hardly "old politics...
...during the Korean War, might work more selectively to restrain lending, and in turn, demand for some kinds of goods. But neither Congress nor the Administration favors such an approach. The Administration is also adamant in rejecting a return to wage-price "guideposts" or "jawbone" jousting with business and labor over excessive price or wage boosts. The old guideposts permitted annual wage increases of 3.2%, an amount equal to average gains in productivity over a long period. Now productivity is falling, and workers can hardly be expected to take wage cuts to match the decline in output per man-hour...