Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undefended Stevens workers suffer terrible working conditions, chronically low wages and starvation-level pension payments. Thousands are slowly dying of the disease byssinosis, or brown lung, caused by cotton-dust levels three times higher than standards set by the federal government. Stevens employees are paid at rates 31 per cent below the national average for factory workers. Retired Stevens workers then spend the last years of their lives in poverty. One man who had worked at a Stevens plant for 40 years was rewarded with a pension of $15 a week...
...major exceptions to the law involve college professors who have tenure, corporation executives whose pension is $27,000 a year or more, and workers covered by labor contracts that provide for earlier forced retirement. The latter will be covered, however, after...
...clouds really began to lower when Ditchley started his own business. His lawyers practically lived with him, filing taxes, dealing with pension plans, dodging safety inspectors and responding (in triplicate) to 12,472 government questionnaires dealing with things like the number of soap spigots in the washrooms and the ratio of three-toed dwarfs he employed relative to their number in the total population. Ditchley was becoming, frankly, a little paranoid on the subject of lawyers. His sister's divorce didn't help...
...question was: Go where? Once again the strike had turned into a cliffhanger, with the nation waiting to learn whether the 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America would vote this Friday to ratify the pact, which contains more generous provisions for health care and pension benefits, or send their negotiators back to the bargaining table...
...likely to reject. Miller has already done this, on a contract that contained such regressive measures as the fining of miners who walk-out on wildcat strikes $110 a week, expelling from the union leaders of wildcats, and that the miners themselves take over the industry-financed health-and-pension plans. It was defeated resoundingly...