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MASCO's latest public offer included a one-year deal calling for a 10-per-cent wage increase, with work schedules open to further discussion
...alcohol is still in experimental stages, Yergin said, adding that although renewable sources are feasible in the long run, conservation should be the main new source of energy now. Citing the Boston-based Gillette Company's 30-per-cent reduction of energy, Yergin said that the United States could use 30- to 40-per-cent less energy without sacrificing its present standard of living...
...final offer, a one-year contract with a 10-per-cent wage hike, wasn't good enough for the workers, who countered with a proposal for a gradual transition to regular work schedules and a two-year contract with wage hikes of 15 and 12 per cent...
Both sides concede the settlement was very much a compromise. The salary issue proved hardest to settle; the mediator's terms allowed the school committee to raise pay only an average of $1000 this year, but gave the CTA a hefty 8.25-per-cent raise in the second year of the pact...
...Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), a 12-year-old nationwide body, accused the school of discrimination in its admissions and hiring policies--pointing to the school's 19.6-per-cent female student body and its absence of tenured female professors, numbers significantly lower than those of similar public policy schools...