Word: unionize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse than the Union...
...Larry Hurley, a union laborer for the MBTA, said yesterday while it's noisy, dirty and "a little hard to take, when it's finished the new station will attract more people and business to the Square...
...Boston University (B.U.) faculty union charged yesterday that B.U. is illegally terminating the contracts of most junior professors and is penalizing professors active in the union by not granting them merit salary increases...
Both sides compromised on the major issue of increasing pensions to keep up with inflation. At first the union wanted pension payments tied to rises in the cost of living: the company strongly rejected that because of the potential high cost. In the end, the union accepted the company's counteroffer to make periodic increases to help protect pensioners against rising prices. During the next three years, workers under 62 who retire after 30 years on the job will get $800 a month to start. Then they will get two in creases in the first year and further boosts...
Another important union demand was that the company increase the number of paid personal holidays so that more workers would be kept on the job. The company agreed to increase paid days off (not counting vacation) from 12 to 26 during the life of the contract. Pending ratification, neither side would discuss the noneconomic improvements or the size of the increases in the cost-of-living clause and pay rates. One unofficial estimate put the wage increase at between 9% and 12%. At present the combined basic wage rate for all classes of GM workers is $9 an hour...