Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talks this weekend stalled over job security, and major issues of wages and benefits have not yet been discussed. The union has backed off an earlier demand for a 50 percent wage hike, but is still asking for a 12 percent raise, while Yale is reportedly offering only 4 percent...
...contrast, ARENA'S D'Aubuisson promises to wage a war of extermination against the guerrillas and their supporters, and draws cheers from well-to-do Salvadorans by vowing to return already nationalized industries to private hands. To his lower-income countrymen he holds out the vague prospect of full employment (40% of the labor force is currently jobless), but offers few concrete proposals for attaining it. In a recent bid to modify his reputation as a leading force behind El Salvador's death squads, D'Aubuisson has taken to adding in speeches that...
...There have been millions of words-too many by far," he concludes, "many that I know I would regret if I steeled myself to review them all again. And for me, as for most twentieth-century Americans, work has been mainly a series of interludes-son, husband, father, traveler, wage earner, victim, victimizer...
Local 34 members believe their salaries and grievance procedures are unfair and that "nobody ever reaches the maximum wage or position within the union," Anne Bracker, an organizer for Local 34, said this week...
...children, and youth employment programs. He cancelled the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) which included major youth job programs while youth unemployment was growing; he tried to have child labor regulations relaxed to allow employers to demand longer hours under worse conditions, he campaigned for a sub-minimum wage for young people. And he tried to eliminate the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and finally reduced its funds by 30 percent...