Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well aware that labor's vote in many metropolitan areas was another major element in the Georgian's election, and was not bashful about pushing some Cabinet favorites (see box). Nor was he bashful about making his policy preferences known. Carter has suggested voluntary wage and price guidelines, rather than formal controls, to curb inflation. Meany made it clear at a news conference last week that he was "very, very wary of any kind" of controls. He did, however, emphasize the need to expand jobs. Said Lane Kirkland, No. 2 man at the AFL-CIO: "Everything else...
Despite these gloomy omens, the government tried to ramrod through Parliament five controversial bills-among them a measure nationalizing the country's ship and aircraft building industries-that the country's powerful labor unions had demanded as a quid pro quo for voluntarily helping to keep wage increases down. All the bills had been passed once before by the Commons and sent on to the Tory-dominated House of Lords. Unable to throw out the bills, the Lords nonetheless tacked on more than 100 crippling amendments and sent them back to the Commons...
Nearly 60 striking Brown library workers voted Sunday night to end their nearly three-month walkout, ratifying a contract proposal that offers them approximately the same wage increase Brown proposed before the strike began...
...wage settlement actually reached--a six per cent wage increase coupled with a $100 bonus--is pitifully inadequate and does not even cover the rate of nationwide price inflation. It represents a figure rejected by the union during last year's contract negotiations, and was accepted only because the university had threatened the workers with "permanent replacement" if they did not immediately return to their jobs...
...Teamster contract called for a 36 cent per hour wage increase, established a pension plan and provided unemployment insurance, hospitalization and major medical protection, life insurance and paid vacations and holidays. Gallo advertised on May 6, 1975, during the UFW's National Farm Workers Week, that the Gallo farm workers were "the highest paid in the continental United States...