Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organizing effort began about a month ago to end what the employee committee charges is an "inequitable wage policy." Phillips, they claim, has paid temporary help higher wage rates than permanent employees. Harvard students hired for inventory, they say, received $2 an hour, while permanent employees receive a maximum of $1.89. The group claims also that Phillips has paid employees unequal wages for the same work and has not granted raises to workers with seniority...
Frank Cresta, 15, said yesterday that Jack Savenor, the manager of the store, told them he was playing them the minimum wage of $1.60 an hour, when he was actually paying them only $1.30 an hour...
During much of the period between election and Inauguration, Richard Nixon purposely remained in the wings, saying little, digesting masses of reports from 21 study groups on problems ranging from the guaranteed annual wage to the post-Viet Nam economy. Now center stage is unavoidable. Nixon's first official address was an evocation of the striving and optimism that are basic to the American temperament: "We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us gather the light...
...maneuvers on her way to a fourth tour in Viet Nam waters. It was 0819 hours. On the stern, 30 Navy aircraft were ready to be catapulted aloft. Loaded with 500-lb. bombs, rockets and air-to-air missiles, the planes of Carrier Air Wing Nine were going to wage a simulated attack on the barren island of Kahoolawe, some 85 miles southeast of Honolulu...
...slowed to practically nothing for one or two quarters, the result would be only a 0.2% rise in the jobless rate, now at a 15-year low of 3.3%. The findings reinforce the belief that the Nixon Administration will have a bit of leeway in which to move against wage-price rises without causing a significant increase in unemployment. But Brimmer and the other Federal Reserve governors believe that "some increase" in the jobless rolls will be unavoidable in a successful fight against inflation...