Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nick of time. The autoworkers cost-of-living increases (or decreases) were switched from the old to the new cost-of-living index. Last week, the new index, which comprises more items, edged a fraction lower, while the old index dropped 1.1%-enough to have caused a 2? hourly wage cut under the autoworkers' old contract...
...walkout of the 500-man union began May 7 as protest against Yale's refusal to grant their four point program for a ten cents an hour across-the-board wage hike, double time for Sundays, union shop, and limitation of student employment...
Final settlement modified the strikers' demands, giving them a 2 1/2 cent wage increase with an additional adjustment for skilled workers. The plea for a union shop was turned down...
...contract will run until May 1, 1955, although it can be reopened next year for discussion of new wage demands. Its provisions include the scheduling of Sunday work with double time...
Some of the lobby's arguments still make sense. However, few foreign industries can offer serious competition to the U.S. for the simple reason that U.S. productivity and efficiency are so much greater that U.S. industry can carry the nation's high wage standard and still outsell foreign competitors...