Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communication Workers of America, which represents 155,000 of AT&T's unionized workers, began the strike at 12:01 a.m. yesterday after rejecting the telecommunications giant's offer of a 7 percent wage increase spread over the next three years...
...margin, Tarheel State Republicans chose Congressman James Broyhill, a mainstream conservative, over the N.C.C.'s man, former Ambassador to Rumania David Funderbunk, to run for the Senate seat vacated by another Helms protege, retiring Senator John East. Broyhill promptly announced that he would wage his campaign without the help of Helms' organization, thank you very much. The continuing bitterness in G.O.P. ranks brought smiles to Democrat Terry Sanford, 68, a onetime North Carolina Governor, who, in a crowded field of ten candidates, won his party's Senate nomination with 60% of the vote...
...ability to get by without two wage earners in the family...
Today 30 inmates answer phones for anywhere from 20 to 40 hours a week, handling about 5% of all calls to Best Western's toll-free number. They earn $4.42 an hour, the same starting wage as the company's regular operators, but the convicts hand over 30% of the money to the prison to pay for room and board. Ronald Evans, Best Western's chief executive officer, calls the program a "resounding success that has solved a legitimate business need...
University officials said yesterday that they will reintroduce the issue when they negotiate the union's contract. "We're going to deal with [the disputed wage] practices in the negotiations," said Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations...