Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, June 30, 1952), reprinted throughout the free world, gave millions of readers a clear, sharp look at France's delusive, defeatist political climate. Although French business, professional and educational leaders make up two-thirds of its subscribers, the magazine frequently needles French employers for their notoriously low wage scales and bad labor relations. It has not spared the rod in criticizing the nation's backward public school system. Last week Réaltiés was coming off the presses with still another rebuke: a special on-the-spot report from Algeria on the shortsighted colonial policy...
...would be better off by diversifying his investments. Some companies fear that organized labor may try to exert too much influence on company policy if union members own large amounts of stock. Another big worry is that unions will take over a program, make it a part of their wage bargaining. In a recent case involving California's Richfield Oil Corp., the NLRB ruled that a company-aided stock-buying program was in effect a boost in wages and thus came under collective-bargaining rules. The case is being appealed in the Federal Court, but many businessmen are skittish...
Everything was fine until a U.S. Department of Labor wage-hour inspector turned up at the little shop last summer. When he found out about the coffee breaks, he said that Greinetz would have to pay for the time. Said the inspector: "As soon as they step in your shop, they are on your time." Greinetz refused to pay, so the Labor Department took the question to Colorado's U.S. District Court...
Offering a new contract to A.F.L. production workers in its three New Jersey plants, American Can Co. included the same widely hailed guaranteed-annual-wage plan that the can industry had given the C.I.O. steelworkers' union (TIME, Aug. 22). But from the A.F.L. local came a startling reaction. Through Business Agent John Gerard, the union flatly rejected G.A.W., said that it was clearly unnecessary in their industry, where there is no seasonal layoff comparable to that in auto plants...
...union and management, long accustomed to facing each other over the picks line and the collective bargains in the classroom in Professor during 181a." Conducted in Harvard 5, the course includes a history of trade unionism and a consideration of the factors that might lead to a guaranteed annual wage or, in other circumstances, to a raise of seven and one-half cents an hour...