Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BGMA officers rejected the BSEIU when they became fearful that the affiliation with the BSEIU might mean affiliation with unskilled persons and therefore wage losses. "I don't want anyone, especially management, to mistake me for a janitor," one BGMA carpenter said. The BGMA's officers also destroyed what few BSEIU authorization cards had been signed...
...shift some of the burdens of service from those who serve onto those who are served. Those of us who do not serve because we are too old or because we are otherwise not selected, should be careful not to use the draft as a way of holding military wages down. And there is no reason to suppose that a man's sense of duty is weakened, or his morale undermined, by having his services appreciated with a decent wage...
Surely the federal minimum wage is not too extravagant for a young man serving in the army in either peace...
...Hard after the elections came the first signs that the economic boom was ending. At first, Eshkol was in full control, correctly arguing that Israel would simply have to learn to live within its means. But then he made the mistake of bowing to labor demands for a general wage increase, which could only contribute to the inflation he professed to oppose. He made other mistakes as well. Driven to distraction by the increase in border terrorism, he lunged out wildly in a massive retaliation raid aimed not at Syria, whose government trains and finances the Arab commando units responsible...
...stabilized Paleolithic man through repetitive acts that produced predictable effects. Early man was first a collector and later a hunter; from animals he learned how to gather food before discovering how to kill for it. Kings created the prototype machines from people: they organized manpower to build monuments and wage...