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...approach to achieving equality in income has been not to knock down high salaries, except for the very highest, but to distribute the gains due to economic growth amongst the lower-paid groups of workers...
...That's terrible," he says. "We should have 18,000. Industry and labor don't seem to realize the tremendous need that exists now, and will exist in the future, for skilled help." -One difficulty is that students lose interest in lower-paid training jobs when they see they can make more money in the short run as laborers...
...preparing the program for the machine to handle, and installing self-checks in the system, is even greater. Companies which counted on replacing clerks with computers have found that it frequently costs more to hire nursemaids, who are highly paid technicians, for the computers than to keep the lower-paid clerks. Finally, poor programing for the computer can leave an expensive machine idle. Automation experts estimate that there is time available to rent on at least half the computers in the U.S. Says Gulf Oil Engineer Warren Davis: "It's just like hiring a floor full of morons...
...decision was a major victory for the pilots, who no longer needed to fear that the greater speed and capacity of the jets would bring pilot layoffs or demotions. It did not satisfy the six American pilots who make up the negotiating team, all of them lower-paid junior pilots. When the representative of the parent A.L.P.A. urged the team to accept a settlement, they ordered him to leave the negotiating talks. Just 14 minutes before the strike deadline, they brought in a dozen more demands, including such fringes as private rooms for all pilots during layovers. The talks collapsed...
...threatened conscription of youths from mining families for pit jobs; 2) the feeling that peace will bring no improvement in working conditions or security; 3) distrust of union leaders; 4) resentment caused by the Government decrees which returned men in the armed forces or war factories to the lower-paid jobs in the mines...