Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid strike threats at Yale and an approaching union preference vote at the University, the Harvard University Employees Representatives Association revealed yesterday it had demanded "a substantial wage increase" and other benefits from the administration...
President of the HUERA Mr. Helen Maynard said the union had applied for elimination of the "three day sick pay" clause and for strict seniority, as well as for the wage increase...
...Maynard said the union based its wage demands on the present scale of living. "The cost of living has not come down enough to affect our wages," she stated...
Mindful of the possible repercussions on their approaching wage negotiations, steelmen were not thinking in terms of a flat, across-the-board boost; they had in mind individual adjustments on different kinds of steel. They would probably have little trouble getting higher prices from their customers. Even though steel output hit a new record of 28,900,000 tons in 1953's first quarter, supplies were still tight. Such big users as the automakers were still resorting to high-cost "conversion" deals (i.e., buying steel ingots from one company and having them rolled, for a fee, by another...
...white shirts and sun-brown faces floated the name of 45-year-old Ramon Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh), the fast-rising, Huk-fighting phenomenon who resigned as Secretary of Defense and quit President Elpidio Quirino's Liberal Party six weeks ago to join the Nacionalistas and wage war on Liberal corruption. Young businessmen, industrialists and army officers, and Filipino housewives-most of them political amateurs with the same kind of contagious enthusiasm as the amateurs for Ike and Stevenson-pitched in with U.S.-style posters and buttons and such slogans as "I sigh for Magsaysay" or "Magsaysay...