Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cost-of-living pay boosts are as important in 1955 employment contracts as were yellow-dog agreements in 1905. They even influence minimum wage laws. If Secretary of Labor James Mitchell wins congressional favor for his $.90 an hour minimum wage, the increase would just offset the inflation during the five years since $.75 became standard. In fact, booming prices have washed out every minimum wage gain since the original Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set wages at $.40 an hour...
During this 17-year era, when union men have collected their share of the economy's expanding production, the 1.3 million minimum-wage workers have gained nothing from industrial progress. Only wage hikes that would carry the wage floor above $.90 an hour, such as Senator Lehman's proposal of $1.25, would give these workers a share in the new wealth their labor has helped produce...
...present minimum wage legislation, however, exceptions ridicule the rule. Exemptions perforate Fair Labor Standards, accurately reflecting the strength of America's employer lobbies. for several million workers--laundrymen, clam diggers, tailors, delivery truck drivers--minimum wages do not exist. Although the Lehman proposal covers chain-store workers for the first time, it continues the exclusion of important groups, among them farm laborers...
...G.A.W. The union wants G.M. to guarantee that all hourly-paid workers will be paid for 52 weeks of the year-whether they work or not. If the employee works but one day of the week, says the union, he should be paid a full week's wages; if he is laid off in advance, his state unemployment compensation should be supplemented by G.M. so that he can maintain his normal standard of living. In addition, U.A.W. is asking for a 5.3?-an-hour wage increase, a boost in the 2½% annual wage credit for increased productivity, better...
...specific strike issues are now obscured. What started as a walkout over ordinary union demands-for a 20? hourly wage hike, a union shop, seniority rights, arbitration of grievances-has turned into an old-fashioned finish fight between the nation's No. 2 union and its No. 2 plumbing-fixtures manufacturer. The union vowed war "until doomsday." Said Kohler: "No outsider can determine our operation...