Word: wage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clubhouse feels like his den. "It's great to be the captain of a great team," he says, another distinction he shares with Bird, although the Celtics' captain dislikes the pregame socializing and the community arguments only captains are permitted to wage with the referees. "It's true," Gretzky agrees, "the fans think you're arguing for yourself all the time, but it's great. Here, Kevin Lowe, Mark Messier and Paul Coffey take charge too. It's fun to be champions...
equal pay for equal work, with an adequate minimum wage...
...T.W.U. talks collapsed when union negotiators refused to accept a company proposal calling for hefty cutbacks in pension and health care plans, along with 5% annual wage hikes through 1987. Union members have not had a raise since they agreed to defer a 14% pay increase in 1980. "I expect a long strike," said Michael Bakalo, a T.W.U. vice president. Securities analysts noted that the airline has some $400 million in cash on hand that it could use to cushion the impact of a lengthy walkout. But a protracted struggle could severely harm both the troubled airline and the strikers...
...other hand, the strong dollar has played a key role in dousing inflation. Faced with fierce competition from cheap imports, companies have been forced to cut costs and hold down prices, and workers have had to settle for modest wage hikes. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of just 2.3% in January, which was even lower than the 4% increase for all of 1984. The economists predicted that prices will rise only 3.6% this year...
Sisterhood is Global is a gold mine of statistical and factual information. It will be an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the social status of women worldwide. Each essay is accompanied by detail after detail on the role of women in all spheres of society--female employment, wage differentials, participation in government, equal rights legislation. More than one-third of all families in the world, we learn, are now headed by women, and the statistics on the number of these families with incomes below national poverty lines lead credence to recent observations of a "feminization of poverty...