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Members of the union voted 219 to 10 Thursday to reject Brown's offer of a 9-per-cent first-year wage increase and an 8-per-cent second-year wage increase. The union is demanding a 13-per-cent wage increase the first year and a 13.5 per-cent increase the second year. The current contract expires at midnight Sunday...
...Salary increases. The CTA is asking for 8-per-cent increases over the first and second year of the contract, with bonuses for employees who have served for long periods. The school committee is offering a total increase of about $885,000 for the first year, and a 7-per-cent across the board raise the second year, according to one source...
...that was only the beginning. From 2,323 persons in 1810, the city grew to 8,409 in 1840. And then, suddenly, population growth mushroomed. A 48-per-cent increase in just five years, to 12,490 in 1845, was only the start; by 1900, the total had doubled three times, and 100,000 lived in Cambridge...
...salary paid for his $700,000 financial-aid find, and the seed sowed for Abernathy & company's energy study should reap many millions of dollars in savings in the next few decades. Financially, the University can afford to finance future deficit budgets by announcing more years of 13.2-per-cent tuition increases. Ethically, Mom, Dad, and Johnny deserve more than a term bill stamped with caveat emptor...
...that women still only make 59 cents for every dollar earned by men, Snyder cites 9 to 5's year-long (April 1979-April 1980) action against the First National Bank of Boston as exemplifying the group's hopes for what it can accomplish. The organization won a 10-per-cent pay increase for non-managerial employees, the implementation of job-posting for vacant positions, and the institution of promotion opportunities for women...