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...economic value on the work of women who raise families, keep house and grow crops. The action was inspired by the London-based International Wages for Housework Campaign, whose organizers attended the NGO forum. The group of activist homemakers has called for a oneday, worldwide housework strike on Oct. 24 to demand government salaries for cooking, cleaning and child care. As radical as the notion may appear, it dramatizes a discouraging fact: domestic labor, seen everywhere as women's work, is universally undervalued. Indeed, according to a recent survey by Economist Ruth Leger Sivard, director of World Priorities, a Washington...
...rust-colored Monongahela River, the mammoth Wheeling-Pittsburgh steel plant has long dominated the town of Monessen, Pa. (pop. 12,000), situated in the shadow of the Allegheny Mountains 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. Last week the mill was conspicuous for another reason. Hit by the first major strike of the United Steelworkers in 26 years, the Wheeling plant stood idle...
...benefits for its 8,200 workers in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The company, which filed for bankruptcy on April 16, acted after a federal judge ruled that its old labor contract could be annulled. The union immediately refused to accept the new work terms and called a strike...
Both sides last week seemed to be settling in for a long strike. The company has perhaps $62 million in cash on hand, $100 million worth of steel in stock and no reason to settle quickly. Meanwhile, those workers who will not be receiving unemployment compensation will collect an average of $60 a week in union benefits for up to 400 weeks. "The next step is liquidation if our backs are forced against the wall," said Wheeling Spokesman Ken Maxcy. Elmer Paulina, a veteran steelworker, was equally unyielding: "There comes a time when you must draw the line...
...tickets to the concerts also caused communications snafus in Maryland, Virginia, New York City, New Jersey and Delaware. Asked if Government communications were affected, the White House's Larry Speakes replied, "We've got ways to get around it." That's a comfort. Otherwise, Kremlin strategists planning a missile strike might be deciding, "First thing we do is announce free Springsteen tickets to the next 1,000 callers in every U.S. city...