Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks to the suppressed wage rate, clubs in the past were able to lavish considerable funds on extravagant expenditures. Prior to this season, salaries constituted only 27 per cent of total team costs compared to over 50 per cent in all other professional sports. Each team allocated a hefty 23 per cent, or roughly $2 million per year to player development, including minor league support, scouting, and spring training. Since each farm system only produces two or three players of major league caliber annually, the consolidation of four or five satellite teams into fewer clubs of elevated quality would successfully...
...find one in 13 weeks, he or she would have to accept a job created by the Government, and put in 20 to 32 hours a week. Sample jobs that would be set up: janitorial work, road construction and office clerking. Pay would be at the prevailing minimum wage level, which is now $2.30 an hour. For every dollar made by an adult, the amount of welfare received by the household would be reduced by 500. For example, if the father in the four-member household was able to earn $2,000 a year, his family's federal payment...
Workers at J.P Stevens earn an average wage of $3.46 an hour, which is about 30 to 40 per cent less than the national average for textile workers, Schippani said yesterday...
...Stevens is the second largest textile manufacturer in the country. It employs 44,000 people in 85 plants, 63 of which are located in North and South Carolina. Wage levels there are about $1.50 per hour lower than the national manufacturing average. Wages in the South are generally lower; unions are much weaker there, and are practically nonexistent in the textile industry. To keep things this way, for years Stevens has conducted a massive campaign of illegal actions--discharge and intimidation of workers, interference in union activities, overt racial discrimination, and wiretapping. It has been found guilty of repeated labor...
...there is growing apprehension that the illegal immigrant's dream-come-true may turn out to be a nation al nightmare. The AFL-CIO argues that the illegals not only take jobs away from Americans but force down wage levels by being willing to work for low salaries. The INS estimates that the newcomers cost the American taxpayer $13 billion a year in social services, and aggravate the already unfavorable balance of payments by annually sending home $3 billion-or more...