Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most surprising, many workers, who only a few weeks ago had been flying red flags and shouting "A bas De Gaulle!" voted Gaullist. Having won big wage increases and other with concessions, they reasoned- again with a certain logic-that De Gaulle was better prepared to defend their gains than the Communists, who, with no experience in running the country, might botch up the economy and nullify their improved status. In all, the Gaullists attracted 1,300,000 new voters to their cause...
...solidifying De Gaulle's opponents. It increased the pressures on De Gaulle for reform, since many of his new supporters voted for him in the expectation that he would live up to his promises to bring about sweeping changes in France's archaic institutions. Stricken by inflationary wage settlements, France's economy has been seriously weakened; and De Gaulle has been forced to resort to drastic measures to protect its ailing industries (see BUSINESS). The country has recently lost $1 billion in foreign exchange. Unemployment is rising, and some people in Paris are already saying...
...Treatment. The dissatisfaction stems in part from the army's broken promise to hold presidential elections in 1966, its cancellation of the political rights of hundreds of Brazilians, and its use of censorship to keep a tight rein on TV, movies and theater. Moreover, Brazil's minimum wage is a meager $39 a month...
Last week the two parties agreed to a pact that will be submitted to the balky union membership. The key issue was the wage package; noneconomic issues, such as work rules or automation, were subsidiary. The unions, whose members were making from $134 to $174 a week, demanded a $36 weekly wage in crease over a 36-month contract. The settlement provides for a $33-a-week wage increase over a 341-month contract. The unions that held out won a slightly better pact than the Teamsters, who had settled for $30 a week last March. But the extra...
...share of its exports. They include ceilings on such goods from abroad as autos, trucks, electrical appliances, textiles and a number of steel products. The subsidies come in the form of more liberal government credit for manufacturers engaged in exporting and indemnities to compensate for recent increases in their wage costs. At the same time, French Finance Minister Maurice Couve de Murville moved to curb inflationary pressures at home by warning that "severe measures" would be taken against excessive price increases...