Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some English teachers labor under the illusion that college students speak English. Dr. Lalia Phipps Boone of the University of Florida knows better: she keeps her ears open outside the classroom. In American Speech she records the exotic gab used by her students when they stop talking for professorial consumption...
Reflecting the increased pace of the new boom, the Labor Department reported last week that in mid-July, employment reached an alltime record of 67,594,000, rising by 252,000 over June. What pleased Government economists most was the 110,000 drop in long-term unemployment (15 weeks or more) to 817,000 in July...
Since the Labor Department's survey was taken during the first week of the steel strike, it showed few of the strike's effects. As the steel strike started, unemployment was down by 238,000 from June to 3,744,000. But an unusual rise in the number of unemployed farm workers in July because of bad weather, and large numbers of young workers moving in and out of the labor market, raised the rate of unemployment to 5.1% from 4.9% in June. The July rise was caused by "temporary factors," said the Labor Department, which expects unemployment...
...have now reduced them to four, involving changes in past working practices, penalties for wildcat strikes, scheduling hours of work, and vacations. Of these, says U.S. Steel President Walter Munford, the past-practices clauses "have become the source of more friction and grievances than any other section of the labor agreements." In its efforts to get them changed, management is pinning its hopes on a single clause that it has drawn up. But the clause is completely unacceptable to the union, and even impartial arbitrators say it is unworkable. It agrees that employees may file grievances...
...preserve the jobs of most of West Germany's 306,000 coal miners, fears the power at the polls of the 600,000-member union of coal, iron-ore and potash miners. This makes little sense to German economists, who point out that the booming country has a labor shortage in many other industries, now has only 215,000 unemployed, fewer than ever before...