Word: wage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice president, Ernest Robert Breech, broke with tradition. He announced that Ford's loss for the first nine months of 1946 was a whopping $51,600,000 (if this figure still stands at year's end, tax rebates would cut this down to $32,900,000). Reasons: wage increases, shortages, suppliers' strikes...
...ready for negotiations next March, when contracts expire for most of its 225,000 operators, linemen, technicians and maintenance men. As a whopping independent union-second only to the Railway Brotherhoods-N.F.T.W. felt strong enough to shoot for the works: union shop, dues checkoff, "substantial" wage boosts...
...Halls is an appropriate occasion for questioning the policy of the University toward Harvard students working in the same jobs. The unhandy hours and limitations upon extra-curricular activity that these jobs impose make them trying enough, but college men employed as student waiters also find that in most wage matters the University discriminates against them in favor of the high school students with whom they work. Specifically, the high school students receive the regular hourly rate and free meals: Harvard men are paid slightly better wages--or were before the new contract was signed--but each week are billed...
This declaration seemed to signal a truce in the bitter left-ring rumpus for the time being and enables the CIO to offer a solid front against industry in the wage battles of this winter...
Murray described the CIO role in last winter's wage disputes as "magnificent," and said "The firm unity within the CIO will result in the same success in the coming months as we achieved during the past winter...