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This puts the consumer in a quandary if he is of a mind to support the boycott. He cannot boycott the lettuce on the grounds that it is nonunion, since most of it comes courtesy of the Teamsters. If he wants to determine whether it is picked by the U.F.W., he has to examine the carton it came in to see if it bears Chavez's black eagle emblem. On the shelf, one head of lettuce looks much like another. While most shoppers go on blissfully buying lettuce with no idea that a boycott is under way, those...
...rate increases by privately owned utility firms. Its move temporarily froze prospective boosts that would have added billions of dollars annually to consumers' telephone, electric and gas bills. The Pay Board issued new rules governing merit raises, the form of pay increase that affects the vast majority of nonunion workers, including high-salaried executives and professionals...
...policy, can result in pay boosts of no more than 7% annually. Moreover, most new merit contracts or plans must conform to the even lower 5.5% guideline for overall pay increases. The board's last previous position had made union merit raises exempt from the guidelines while holding nonunion employees to the 5.5% rule...
Employers are generally enforcing the Pay Board's 5.5% wage guideline for nonunion workers-who fill more than two-thirds of all U.S. jobs, as headline writers too frequently forget. That is a triumph for anti-inflation policy, if not for equity. Although TIME'S Board of Economists is by no means satisfied with the progress of Phase II so far, most of them expect the record to improve in 1972. Says Walter Heller: "I think that with the Pay Board and Price Commission, as with a child or a dog, you can have a few accidents...
...guideline is 5.5% annually, but that does not necessarily apply to every paycheck. The rule that most directly affects the majority of low-or medium-paid workers-including millions of nonunionized whitecollar, clerical and semiprofessional employees-is that the total, or aggregate wage increase must be held to 5.5% within each "employee unit." Such a unit could be a department, a whole company, or a labor union that in the past has been grouped together in the same wage adjustment. Thus the boss is perfectly free to grant 10% pay raises to secretaries and only 1% increases to cleaning women...