Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilots, who comprise 75% of TWA's flight personnel, have had no raise since their pay schedule was established by law as a minimum in 1934, and they will not benefit at all by the current strike. Their salary averages...
...business, said soft-voiced, hard-minded Chuck Luckman, deserved its reputation for being opposed to "everything that spells greater security, wellbeing, or peace of mind for the little guy." Why? "Well, we declared war on collective bargaining . . . battled child-labor legislation . . . yipped and yowled against minimum-wage laws . . . and currently we are kicking the hell out of proposals to provide universal sickness and accident insurance...
...reformation of business must precede the reformation of labor. To reform itself, business must "stop making noises like a corporation." It must work to restore a sense of "togetherness" between management and labor. It must show that management and labor have the same interests by backing 1) decent minimum-wage legislation, 2) higher educational appropriations, 3) annual wage plans, 4) pension programs. It should do this, if for no other reason, because it paid off in dollars and cents...
According to the terms of the new contract, the dining hall workers are to receive the same take-home pay for five days' work as they have been previously receiving for six. This change will be translated for the temporary employees into a 12-cent rise in the minimum wage, from 53 to 65 cents per hour (plus meals...
...announced intentions to reduce income taxes by 20 per cent, and a consequent paring of appropriations for all government projects, including an Army and Navy engaged in vital Occupation duties. Further Republican proposals in this revival of the Crystal Palace era of laissez-faire include shelving of the minimum-wage bill and President Truman's measure to establish a Federal health insurance program, both of which were introduced in the last Congressional session...