Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides resumed informal talks yesterday but at a subcommittee level. No progress in disagreements over wage levels, contracting out of work to non-union or overseas companies and new job classifications that the companuy wants was reported by either...
Meanwhile, AT&T announced yesterday afternoon an agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the second largest of its employee unions with 41,000 members, on a new contract providing an 8 percent wage increase over three years...
Although Radcliffe students in the early 1960scould plan on having some sort of a career, theywere not expected to provide for themselves. "Iremember one dean told us that our advantage layin the fact we were not main wage earners. So wehad the intellectual freedom to explore thepossibilities that men might not," says VivianPerlstein Folkenflik '61, who teaches at theUniversity of California at Irvine...
...addition, the union leadership will demand wage increases and "more professional administration of the dining halls," says Bozzotto. "Right now, the management of the dining halls has no rhyme or reason, and we want a consistent program for all the dining halls, not dependent on the personality of the individual managers...
Some cities around the country are beginning to wage all-out assaults on the crack trade. Last week, after local and federal authorities nabbed 44 suspected dealers, New York City Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward announced the formation of a special anti-crack unit, composed of 101 veteran undercover officers. The unit is the first New York police squad ever devoted to fighting a single drug. Miami's 16-month-old street narcotics operation busted seven crack base houses, arrested 485 dopers and confiscated more than $8,000 in cash during a six-week period this spring...