Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What bothered Britons was Wilson's drastic program to rescue the pound: the six-month freeze on wages, prices and dividends, to be followed by another six months of "restraint." His plan angered almost everyone, from 23,000 doctors on Britain's health plan, who were required to forgo a 15% salary increase, to the 25,000-member civil service union, whose newspaper called Wilson's measures "a monstrous breach of faith." The powerful Trades Union Congress reluctantly agreed to continue to support Wilson's wage policy, but discontent is so great within its member unions...
Reduced Majority. Wilson's tactics brought bitter resentment in Parliament. As a maneuver to speed the passage of a wage-price freeze, Wilson attached the measure as a rider to an earlier bill that had already been debated in Commons. The effect was to bar debate there on the substance of Wilson's measure-which of course brought an angry outcry from the opposition Tories. Conservative Leader Ted Heath rose in the House to remind Wilson that, during last year's election campaign, the Prime Minister himself had described a wage freeze as "monstrously unfair" and "repugnant...
With the strength of his army behind him, Castello Branco upped tax collections, chopped subsidies, tightened credit, slowed down the currency printing presses. For all his efforts, living costs under his regime have soared no less than 117%, and he himself has had to double the official minimum wage level. Last week bus fares in Rio rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from...
...Party's internal feuds. Fearing massive unemployment, 47 Labor M.P.s signed a protest against Wilson's measures, and it was all Deputy Prime Minister George Brown could do to win the "reluctant acquiescence" of Britain's influential Trades Union Congress to the idea of a voluntary wage freeze...
...society." The poor need lawyers not only to stay out of jail, he said, but also to contend with landlords, bureaucrats and faceless welfare agencies. Forever trapped in a "debtor's spiral," said Alexander, the poor constantly face repossession because of a single missed payment, as well as wage attachments that often lead to their being fired. The poor, Alexander held, need more legal aid than any other class in the nation-and get less...