Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford did manage to wring some relief in the haggling over the last major contract hangup, which concerned the U.A.W.'s cherished cost-of-living escalator clause. While the old contract provided for unlimited automatic wage adjustments geared to the consumer price index, this time Ford got annual ceilings of 8? and 7? in the second and third years of the contract, agreeing to a minimum annual increase of 3? in return. The pennies were not peanuts; 1? an hour on Ford's 160,000-man payroll means $3,200,000 a year...
...earnings increased a bare 2.9% to $11,642,000, even including the gain from sale of some British holdings. Goodrich's trouble was an 86-day strike that hit major rubber companies earlier this year. The strike held up deliveries to customers and resulted in wage increases that have so far not been compensated for by the price increases that Goodrich and other companies in the industry instituted after the strike was settled...
...time "to wage a different kind of war" in which we place "human needs and values first," Kennedy told an over-flow audience at the Harvard Medical School. Our country must end its "reliance on sheer power," he said...
...early 1967, Ray Mungo, Editor of the B.U. News, contacted Baird, presented him with a petition signed by 679 Boston University students, and invited him to wage his next battle in Massachusetts. He came here in April, and promptly set his sights on the "Crimes Against Chastity" passage in the State Constitution, which he calls "among the most archaic, reactionary, and dangerous of any state law in the country...
...does Rocky, who has had nine years as Governor in which to learn. During his tenure, Rockefeller has increased aid to secondary and elementary schools by 170%, tripled the size of the state university system, inaugurated a $1 billion program to end water pollution, pushed through a $1.50 minimum wage, and proposed a $2.5 billion program to modernize mass transportation. Though he was not entirely satisfied with the state's new constitution (see THE LAW), he endorsed it last week, a move that aligned the Governor with Bobby Kennedy and against practically everybody else, including other G.O.P. leaders...