Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grievances over job training, wages, and unions. However, in these areas the Coop's record is remarkably good. For instance, between July 1967 and April 1968, the Coop ran five training programs for 75 disadvantaged youths recruited through ABCD at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. The Coop pays wages competitively with the other retail stores in the area. Contrary to the opposition's claims, no employee earns under the minimum wage of $1.60 per hour, while the average employee wage is $1.95 per hour. In addition, employees get liberal fringe benefits, including a 20 per cent discount on merchandise...
...work of the missionaries, principally a Father Doran, convinced him that he should do something more than fly for pay: "They're good people, they're trying to do what they can," he says of the missionaries' efforts to keep the Biafrans' hair from turning blonde (the last stage before death by starvation) by flying in food, principally baby food for the festering mouths of the people. The problem is, McGuire says, that he as an airman can fly the food in, but there is no guarantee that it will reach those who need it. "It goes here, it goes...
...theme that has been generally successful for decades, maintains that U.S. citizens "have never had it so good." He always adds: "Don't let the Republicans take it away." To support his argument, Humphrey cites "91 months of sensational economic growth," a 4% yearly rise in take-home pay for a family of four, doubled business profits and the lowest unemployment in 15 years...
Forceful Bargaining. Much of the surge in prices is attributable to soaring wages, which companies have decided to let the customers pay for. President Johnson tried, without success, to hold organized labor's annual contract increases to 3.2%. This year, the raises are more on the order...
...West German government's commendable attempt to pay reparations to the victims of Nazi cruelty is the most remarkable effort in history to treat sin as crime and then atone for it in cash. In absolute terms, the whole idea is preposterous: How can one recompense a man for his own death? And though payments, of course, are made to next of kin, the Wiedergutmachung (literally "making good again") is a legal anomaly that intentionally permits all sorts of quasi-legal advantages to the claimants. It is a "beautiful piece of liberal and humane legislation," as one of Lionel...