Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riots. Extortion had paid for it all. "There may well have been contemporaries of Jean de Berry," wrote Millard Meiss, "who maintained that he cared more for animals and for art than for men." They may well have been right. Jean de Berry once gave a hound a life pension, but he taxed his subjects so fiercely that they rioted. Worse, from the aspect of practical politics, he chose the wrong faction in the struggles for the French throne, so his house in Paris was sacked by a furious mob in 1411, and one of his châteaux, stuffed...
...spend a dollar, I want two back--not for myself, but for the men in the union." Results? In the 12 months after he called a city-wide strike of the 11,333 members of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association in 1968, DeLury negotiated a 20-year pension plan and two contracts which netted a cool $5000 pay increase for each of those 11,333 men. A sanitation worker in New York City--"if you want to get me mad, call us 'garbage men'," says DeLury--currently makes $12,888 base salary, but throw in time and a half...
...period from 1966-68. When DeLury went to jail in 1968 for refusing to obey an injunction against the sanitation workers' strike, the prospects for Lindsay garnering even token labor support seemed slight. But Lindsay bent to DeLury's demands in 1968, conceding two pay hikes and the pension plan following the nine-day strike. So when it came time for Lindsay to run again in 1969, the sanitation workers fell in line behind DeLury; in point of fact, the NYUSA was among the first unions to support Lindsay's campaign...
Last year my grandmother had written to us that Mrs. Aslett was leaving: "She'll be sixty-five in December and she wants to retire on her State pension. What we shall do then I've not decided. Funny old thing. I expect she'll find life quite dull! She's already told me she'd still like to come in once or twice a week anyway, but no more, because then she should have to forfeit part of the pension...
Alice, my aunt, was called in, and finally Mrs. Aslett mumbled her explanation. The week before she had gathered up all the proper papers and gone into the local government office to see about getting herself registered for a pension come December. "The man there," she said, "he looked at my papers...