Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provision guaranteeing a minimum 40-cent-an-hour increase in all wages, an addition that exceeds the 6-per-cent wage increase for lower-paid workers, was the greatest victory for the union, the spokesman said yesterday...
...Chief Georges Marchais, and Robert Fabre, head of the Left Radical Party that had been allied with the Socialists and Communists in the elections. Séguy's "demands" came straight out of the handbook of inflation: across-the-board salary increases, including a 37% hike in the minimum wage to $520 a month, and increases in pensions and other social benefits. Marchais spent an hour with Giscard, pleading, he said, on behalf of "millions of workers who have reached the limit of their endurance." Afterward, the Communist leader declared: "I am convinced that the [center-right] majority will...
Hold Back the Minimum Wage. It jumped from $2.30 to $2.65 last January and is scheduled to rise to $2.90 next January and $3.35 in 1981. Besides being inflationary, the increases discourage hiring of the unskilled and the young...
...accounts with a balance under the $300 minimum, there will be a service charge of $1 per month...
...fathered by another man). But apart from the obligatory references to apartheid and Castle's off-the-job self-image as "an honorary black," they lead the dull and insistently predictable life of any suburban couple. At this point in his life (he is 64), Castle asks the bare minimum of life. And like most Greene heroes, he harbors the perpetual conviction that the less you expect from life the more you're likely to lose...