Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norcal's packers are not alone in working harder for the same or lower pay. For the first sustained period since World War II, the same frustrating experience is affecting millions of American workers, from steelworkers to grocery clerks, airline pilots to meat-packers. A prime reason: over the span of the 1980s, wages have been lagging slightly behind inflation, even at today's comparatively mild pace of about 5%. Between 1980 and June of this year, for example, the average weekly earnings for U.S. workers increased from $235 a week to $309. But after adjustment for inflation, including...
...wages in many sectors were ripe for attack because they remained too high in relation to industrial paychecks in the rest of the world. The porous U.S. economy made such an imbalance impossible to maintain as domestic goods suffered from an invasion of bargain-priced products from countries with lower wage scales: textiles and steel are prime examples. High unemployment during the recession of 1981-82 gave companies more leverage to seek wage concessions or at least hold the line. The newest challenge to wages has been the economy's takeover frenzy, which has inspired managers to pare down work...
What employees have often got in return for lower wages is increased job security. That was underlined last week, when the Labor Department announced that U.S. unemployment had fallen to 6.1% in June, from 6.3% the previous month...
...charge of finding a political solution to the crisis, an assignment that few took seriously in a system dominated by presidential authority. Kim Young Sam, for example, insisted on meeting with Chun and pointedly refused to deal with his designated successor. But Roh began holding talks with lower-ranking members of the opposition, as well as a wide range of other South Koreans. Roh says he did not convey his momentous conclusion to Chun before going public with it on Monday. Longtime observers of the South Korean political scene, however, find that contention hard to believe. Says a Western diplomat...
...resignation last week of Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, a moderate, throws open the possibility of a new examination of the "mess." Justices William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White have indicated a willingness to lower some church-state barriers, and Antonin Scalia, a conservative who joined the court last year, dissented from overturning a Louisiana law that required equal school treatment for creation science, deeming the court's work on the establishment clause "embarrassing." Powell's replacement, who will become President Reagan's third court appointment, may create a new 5-4 majority favoring a less rigid...