Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic primary. This year, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, another Negro attorney, George Payton Jr., 39, decided to try. Scraping together the $2,000 registration fee with loans from relatives, Payton attacked Rivers as a "warmonger and superhawk," stumped for a $2 minimum wage, expanded social security, and liberal federal housing programs...
...order to head off any such potent alliance of workers and students as that in France last month, ordered plastic-helmeted militiamen to patrol outside the university and banned all public demonstrations. He was also quick to throw a bone in the workers' direction, ordering the minimum wage of $12 a month doubled immediately. Within hours, dozens of published messages poured into student headquarters from factory Communist committees, most agreeing vaguely to aims of reform but all roundly condemning activist methods. "We invite you to unmask instigators," wrote the workers of a furniture factory. "We, the creators of income...
...technocratic workers, whether they labor in Communist or capitalistic nations, he says, are too wrapped up in the system to turn on it-and increasingly, as student activists put out calls to the factory for a show of solidarity, they prove him right. Marcuse's answer is to wage revolution with small groups of intellectuals and students. But more than one campus commando has reached the same conclusion as Jürgen Horiemann, 26-year-old West German S.D.S. (Socialist Student League) leader. "We simply are not a power factor in society," he says. "We cannot alone carry...
During steel's last labor negotiations three years ago, a national strike was averted only by the Johnson Administration's last-minute intervention. Brought to the White House to bargain, the two sides finally agreed on wage increases amounting to 3.7% a year. Since then, however, Steelworkers have seen those gains largely wiped out by an 8.8% jump in consumer prices. With living costs still climbing, the union is now seeking, as Vice President Joseph P. Molony puts it, "whopping" wage increases...
Though bargaining for a wage increase on an industry-wide basis, the steelworkers have also raised thousands of local issues-ranging from demands for cleaner toilets to complaints about poor lighting in plant walkways-that could impede a settlement. But money, says Abel, "is the most important matter"-and the union has some important precedents to lean on. At the very least, it is likely to insist on wage-and-benefit increases approaching the 6% gain won last year by the United Automobile Workers in its settlements with Detroit's Big Three. Larger still is the 6.5% increase that...