Word: waged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attitude of thinking black people are inferior or disliking them because of their skin color. It is a matter of the ways in which black people are paid less and forced to live in poor housing. The reason that Harvard can get experienced black painters at a lower wage (besides the fact that helpers are lied to about promotions) is that these men can't find jobs elsewhere because of discrimination. To justify profiting from skilled black painters hired for the low helpers' wage. Harvard claims that it can't find "qualified" black workers. This is false. It builds...
...previous jobs. It should also pay the trainees the same as the other painters because they will be doing the same work. The University should negotiate these things with the union now, when a new contract is being drawn up. The present helpers should be promoted and paid a wage equal to the journeymen's. It is time the University stopped hiring blacks for less, under false pretenses, so that it can save money. Harvard employed 60 journeymen painters in 1952 and 27 to do the job today-this is where the 12 helpers come...
...students are demanding improvements in kitchen working conditions and an end to the wage differential between first cooks (women) and chefs...
...Confronts Britton Over Wage Differential
...demonstrators maintained that the wage differential is a form of "male chauviaism." Ginny Vogel 70 told Britton, "According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this sexual discrimination is illegal." When she and other students asked Britton why all the chefs were men and all the cooks women, he said, "There's a long tradition of male superiority...