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Therefore we strongly support efforts in Congress to raise the minimum permissable age of mandatory retirement, in hope that mandatory retirement will be eliminated altogether. American society is badly in need of reforms to provide equal opportunity for women and minorities. But the need for broad reform should not be grounds for continued discrimination against the elderly. It is unclear whether the passage of the bill now in Congress will cripple attempts to implement reforms favoring opportunities for women and minorities, but it is clear that a continuation of mandatory retirement will limit the opportunities of the nation's elderly...
...mandatory retirement laws can be avoided. Such a bill could potentially have its most serious impact on the academic job market and higher education. Thus, Harvard must take a firm stand in favor of proposed amendments to the bill that would exempt tenured college faculty from the 70-year minimum mandatory retirement age. University-level academics are among those jobholders who can be expected to continue to work if the unamended bill is approved. And, as Graduate School Dean Edward L. Keenan '57 says, professors "tend to be obscenely long-lived...
...alternative, the union demanded that along with an improved wage and benefits package, the companies strengthen a guaranteed annual wage clause that has been part of I.L.A. contracts since 1964. The clause provides that union members receive a minimum yearly salary whether or not there is work for them, and the I.L.A. agreed in return to put a freeze on additions to its union rolls. Locals in each port negotiate the size of the guarantee. The money comes from a tonnage charge levied by port employer associations on all cargo that crosses the docks. In the Port of New York...
...that all port guarantees be brought closer to the New York level. Though New York employers naturally do not object, those in the other ports do, and as a result, the industry has been unable to agree on a common response. In New York, the lowliest longshoreman "earns" a minimum of $16,640 a year yet can often wind up doing no work for weeks at a time, though when he does work the job is a grueling grind. At the top, 354 New York longshoremen make $40,000 to $56,000 a year. Because of upside-down seniority rules...
...vessels. And then there are enchanting works like a bronze stag only 16cm. high, that dates from around 1000-700 B.C. and was discovered near Sevlievo. It is composed of the simplest forms--hardly more than a few cylinders, shaped to forms an abstraction of a stag, with a minimum of anatomical accuracy--and all the appeal of similar Scythian statuettes...