Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear of Costello's declining the offer,the SPAs decided to increase their original bid of$30,000 to the $33,500 for which Costello'smanagement asked...
...This is not a basis for settlement," said Ithaca's UAW President Al Davidoff of the new offer. He said the union and the university were still at odds over the extent of poverty among union workers, and over the system by which wages should be increased for senior workers...
...Peter Tufford, chief negotiator for Cornell and manager of the university's Employee Relations Department, said that Cornell's new proposal does not offer the union any more money for the fiscal year 1987-88 then the earlier ones did. But even though Cornell opposes the step system, the university has offered as a concession a new way of distributing wages to the workers, he said...
Some organizations have even begun to offer massage as a paid employee perk-up. At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, addled workers can get on-site soothing. At Merrill Lynch's Manhattan headquarters, a therapist is on staff. Steve Herfield, president of Manhattan Temporaries, pays for up to two minimassages a week for each of his twelve employees. "Some were skeptical at first," he recalls. "Now they'd like it every day. It's a real break and a real lift." Not always, however. Some therapists report that staffers occasionally are left so relaxed that they nod off at their desks...
...issue of promotions ensured the troopers one more spot in the history books. In another in the maze of rulings that have defined the ground rules for affirmative action, the court upheld an intricate scheme aimed at compelling integration of the higher ranks. To prod the troopers to offer an acceptable plan, a lower court temporarily required the force to promote one black trooper for every white promoted to each rank, if there were qualified blacks available, until they constituted 25% of that rank. The 5-4 decision in the case, U.S. v. Paradise, marks the first time the Justices...