Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was much more than an engravers' wage boost at stake. Both the publishers and the unions fully realized that any agreement with the Photo-Engravers' Union would set the pace for negotiations with all eight other newspaper unions. (The publishers estimated that an across-the-board increase would cost them $1,000,000 a year for every $1 in pay boosts.) "New York publishers have made their decision," commented the Louisville Courier-Journal. "They are refusing to tie themselves to blanket cost expansion...
...engravers will definitely get a $3.00 a week wage increase plus 75 cents worth of benefits. This is what the publishers wanted all along. However, the fact finding board can recommend additional amounts, and the engravers will have the privilege of striking again...
While Washington authorities hurriedly appointed a three-man madiation penel to bring an end to the strike which has silenced the City's journals just at the height of the Christman shopping season, the City's photoengravers still sought a weekly wage increase...
...appeared possible last night that the strikers had other considerations in mind beside the straight wage increase. It is know that the strike may effect the future pacts reached with the whole newspaper industry...
Four hundred photoengravers originally struck for wage boosts, but over 20,000 other newspaper employees refused to cross the picketlines, thus completing the strike. the publishers have called this a violation of its existing contracts with the non-striking unions...