Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitute an indigent class," says Cal's Bernardo. "We live below the labor department's poverty line." Thus there are duds as well as diamonds among TAs. One Harvard fellow candidly rates 20% of the TAs in his department as "obtuse and useless pedants." And undergraduate uneasiness about being distant from top-brass teachers is widespread throughout the best U.S. universities...
...Mardon, the white daughter of a U.S. Navy captain, Pye meted out the absolute maximum sentence-a $1,000 fine, six months in jail and twelve months' hard labor in a county work camp. Pye set Mardon's appeal bond at a whopping $15,000, to be secured by unencumbered property only. She appealed to Georgia's highest court-and lost...
...problems that face U.S. companies setting up shop in Europe, one of the most perplexing is how to deal with European labor. The workers generally welcome American firms for the good working conditions and higher pay that they offer, but U.S. executives soon find that it takes more than that to get along with their European help. Not that European labor is necessarily more demanding or obstinate than U.S. labor: it is merely different. The U.S. firm that wants to make a success on the Continent cannot afford to ignore the differences...
...strikes all last year), the French have a way of striking at any time without warning; wildcat walkouts are especially prevalent in Britain, where the courts have little power to intervene. U.S. businessmen are often taken aback by the anti-capitalist polemics, greater militance and puzzling multiplicity of the labor unions. The British have 190 unions, and a company such as Ford must negotiate with more than 20 on each contract go-round. In France three welders working side by side may belong to three different unions...
European governments loom especially large in labor negotiations. Because the French government employs 25% of the country's labor force and the Italian government 12%, they wield a tremendous influence on wage policies. Under the complicated French labor code, special labor courts handle all grievances, and each plant is required to have an employee committee sitting as advisers to management. Called the Comité d'Entreprise, it can be anything from a great help to a hair shirt, meets at least monthly with plant managers and can have the company's books audited at any time...