Word: wage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, the strike seemed simply a matter of money. The seamen, who now earn about $56 for working 56 hours a week, want the same wage for a 40-hour week, plus overtime pay for the additional 16 hours. The raise would be far above the 3½% annual wage increase Wilson has laid down as the cornerstone of his policy of economic restraint...
...also stumped white neighborhoods, addressed white civic clubs, won the endorsement of the white-ruled Democratic organization. While her opponent, former State Representative J. C. Whitfield 44, resorted to plaintive racist appeals ("Can a white man win?") Miss Jordan drummed home the need for such reforms as state minimum-wage provisions, industrial-accident laws and lower auto-insurance rates...
This is nothing new, either. A few years ago school classrooms designed to accomodate people had to handle as many as a hundred time because Congress failed to appropriate money for teachers' salaries until late in the semester. Washington workers are excluded from coverage under the national minimum wage law. Yet a minimum wage bill which still would leave them below the Administration-defined poverty line is currently stalled in conferences. Washington children whose parents are unemployed are not entitled to Federal payments available to children of unemployed parents in the states...
...proposes a higher minimum wage and an extension of the existing minimum to cover workers unprotected by minimum to cover workers unprotected by minimum wage legislation. Brooke suggests that the benefits of Medicare be extended to needy younger people, and he cautiously states that a negative income tax "ought to be seriously considered" as a means of raising income of the disadvantaged to an established minimum level...
Emily S. Perkins '66, chairman of the SDS labor committee, has been working closely with the Workers' Association for about a month. Last week SDS helped the Association draw up a list of demands. These included a minimum wage of $1.65 per hour, time and a half for overtime, and Blue Cross-Blue Shield protection for all employees...