Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President-elect has said nothing at all about all those servicemen who received less than honorable discharges for acts of protest short of desertion, but related to their reluctance to wage the war. Some, for example, failed to carry out orders, became chronic malingerers or were insubordinate to superiors. No one knows just how many cases there are, since many of these discharges were made, often capriciously, for a wide array of reasons to get rid of unwanted soldiers. Some of the war-resister groups insist there were about 700,000 veterans with less-than-honorable discharges and that...
...equally ineffective. The U.S. is doing a decent job of regulating American flagships, mandating such things as crew qualifications and training, navigational and safety equipment. But it has done little to regulate foreign ships, many of which are registered in Liberia and Panama to avoid U.S. or European taxes, wage scales and expensive?hence profit-cutting?regulations on crews and equipment. Liberia, which has no natural harbor, has the world's largest tanker tonnage?with some of its ships American-owned. Such ships and their crews frequently fail to meet adequate safety standards. The Argo Merchant, for example, was involved...
...help reduce inflation. Israeli leaders deem it out of the question politically to cut defense expenditures, which swallowed 42% of the $12 billion budget in 1976. Welfare payments ($2.2 billion last year) are another political untouchable. The Histadrut, Israel's all-powerful labor federation, is dead set against wage controls; workers strike like clockwork to protest high prices, and nearly always win raises from management. Last week in the Knesset (parliament), the right-wing opposition party, Likud, pushed into committee four bills requiring arbitration in labor disputes involving various public service workers. The Histadrut set off a thunderous...
...federal taxes, and are also afraid that mainland U.S corporations will leave the island, Felix M. Torres '79, a son of Puerto Rican immigrants, said yesterday. The corporations may leave because of a loss of tax incentives and a loss of cheap labor due to an imposition of minimum wage laws, Torres added...
...their shipments in early December seem to be sticking, despite heavy political flak. Mill executives say that the real test of whether the boosts will last in the market will not come until January. But the increases have survived criticism by President Ford's Council on Wage and Price Stability and publicly voiced "concern" by President-elect Jimmy Carter...