Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heroux says the labor shortage has been severe for several years. "It's been almost at the edge of crisis at all times," he says. "Employers are literally scrambling and scratching for employees...
Joseph P. Devine, assistant manager of Broadway Supermarket, which employs about 50 workers, says the labor shortage has grown progressively more acute over the last three or four years, as the state unemployment rate dropped to its current 3 percent rate in the years after the economic recession of the early 1980s. Broadway has had to raise its starting salaries by as much as $2 an hour for some positions in recent months, he says...
...child, the employer could easily fill her slot with another worker. During the 1970s, the U.S. work force increased by an average of 3 million people a year. But in the next decade, as the baby bust -- the smaller generation behind the huge baby boom -- comes of age, the labor force will grow more slowly than at any other time since the 1930s, expanding by just 1.3 million new workers each year. Says Tom Blumer, director of human relations at Corning Glass: "We no longer have the luxury of an unlimited labor supply...
Moreover, the majority of new workers in this smaller labor pool are women. The Hudson Institute, a nonprofit Manhattan research organization, estimates that 3 out of every 5 people entering the work force during the next twelve years will be women. Most will have children at some point during their careers...
...After the convention, Sasso saw that something was missing: no one was crafting new themes to extend the basic message of the primary campaign. Still, Sasso kept his own counsel. Dukakis does not like asking for favors or admitting mistakes. So when he finally invited Sasso back, just before Labor Day, it was because the candidate had no choice: the campaign was in trouble, and only Sasso could...