Word: waged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duarte also faces problems within one of his own political bastions, organized labor. In the past three years, Salvadoran prices have risen 98%; the government has allowed wage increases of only 20% for private sector workers and 10% for the public sector. Prior to the March 25 election round, bank and water works employees in San Salvador struck to protest the wage situation. In that climate of frustration there is danger that the guerrillas will achieve their goal of winning substantial support within the labor movement...
...written into the Council bylaws: "The Executive Secretary shall be an employee of the University, but his salary shall be drawn upon the treasury of the Council" (Article XIII, Section 131.35). So, even though they've hired a student, the Council has to maintain the official wage level...
...place nationwide. Including decline in membership, management's hostility, and non-enforcement of labor laws by the government. In 1954, a peak year, 34 percent of the non-agricultural work force belonged to unions while today that number stands at 18 percent From automobiles to airlines, management is demanding wage concessions from unions and in some sectors even seeking their demise. In their book Freeman and Medoff urge government to enforce right-to-organize laws and halt the illegal anti-union campaigns that management has been conducting. While in the 1970s unions bargained to keep wages in step with inflation...
...Unions will be sobered in the coming years," says Medoff. "The average union will not be trying to get big wage increases as they did in the 1970s." Instead, the authors say, unions will be devoting most of their energy to simply making up lost ground...
DIED. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 40, Colombia's Minister of Justice; by assassination, when two gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up to his car and shot him eight times with a machine gun; in Bogota. The first Colombian law-enforcement boss to wage a vigorous campaign against his country's powerful drug traffickers, Lara refused to wear a bulletproof jacket despite death threats. One of the two hitmen died immediately when the motorcycle crashed; the other, captured minutes later, claimed that "everything was arranged in Medellin," center of Colombia's $5 billion-a-year drug trade. After...