Word: wages
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...with near-total paralysis. Bowing to pressures from the government and their own union officials, the toolmakers voted last week to go back to their lathes. It was a significant reprieve for Britain's Labor government, which sorely needs worker support for Phase 3 of its nationwide voluntary wage-control program, due to begin...
...Left," Ismael says, emerged as a response to the failure of pro-Palestinian forces in 1967 to wage war successfully against Israel and the forces of world (mostly U.S.) imperialism which she represents to the "New Left." While the roots--and, indeed, the actual formation--of various leftist groups had become implanted in the Arab world a decade before the June 1967 War, the failure of those groups to clearly define and/or implement their ideology had generated political weakness and ideological dissatisfaction...
...Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, thinks that the President should have provided incentives to businessmen for on-the-job training of youths. More basically, he complains that Carter "has failed to come to grips with the fundamental factor behind teen-age unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised to $3.00. Such a step could well price even greater numbers of unskilled young people out of the job market and into the street. Says a Florida social worker who tries to find work...
Conservative Strategy. In the next budget, Healey is expected to allow a limited degree of stimulus. But he cannot sanction too much until he knows whether voluntary wage controls will be in existence after July. If no Phase 3 agreement is reached, Healey warns, Britain faces "catastrophe...
When Bea, married to a printer and the mother of two, returned to work as a data processor, she was offered $2 an hour-a beginner's wage. That was what she had been making four years before. For non-college-educated women, Bea's predicament is not uncommon. According to Louise Kapp Howe, the odds are overwhelming that what such women do is vastly undervalued. To assemble her disquieting portrait of the work life of the average woman, Howe interviewed scores of women, met with unions and management and even took a job as a sales clerk...