Word: waged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current proposals are final. As a result, the longer the strike lasts, the more entrenched the two sides become. In statements to the press and handouts distributed at Yale, both sides have stuck to their guns so firmly that now the central issue of the strike is no longer wage increases or job security arrangements. Instead, the act of negotiating, and especially the question of submitting the dispute to third-party arbitration, have become the key points in the debate...
...administration has good reason to try to avoid an arbitrated settlement. In 1974, after two months of a strike by Local 35, the university agreed to "non-binding fact-finding" by an outside arbitrator, who decided in favor of the union's proposals, which included a 7-per-cent wage increase. Kingman Brewster, then Yale's President, accepted all the proposals, but administrators say now they believe the university was pressured into signing the contract. So this time around, Yale is playing the game of collective bargaining more carefully. Far from announcing any willingness to accept arbitration again, university officials...
Negotiations for this year's contract began last May, two months before the union's old agreement was due to expire. Local 35 is asking for a one-year contract with an 8-per-cent wage increase, while the university has proposed a package of a wage increase and partial cost-of-living adjustment that, it says, would raise wages from 16 to 22 per cent over three years, depending on the employee's job status. But union leaders charge that Yale's figures are misleading and partially false. Under the university's proposal, they say, the real wages paid...
...Republican Congressman Guy Vander Jagt elevates the tax issue to geophysical dimensions. "It is a tidal wave," he says, after a week of listening to complaints on a trip from Florida to California. Oklahoma's Democratic Representative James R. Jones finds signals of desperation among small businessmen and wage earners. The burdens of state and local taxes are at the breaking point, they say. Then from Washington comes the message of immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class Americans and business...
...strikers, who earn $121 a week after four years service, demanded a 20% pay hike that would, the union claims, boost their salaries to the current average wage for Britain's industrial workers plus a 10% bonus for hazardous duty. (New York City firemen with similar experience make $385 a week.) But to combat Britain's inflation rate, now 15.6% annually, Callaghan's Labor government has set a 10% ceiling on all union pay increases over the next year...