Word: wages
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...stadium was just one in a series of protests last week by militant members of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's cop union. Their aim was to draw public attention to the P.B.A.'s disapproval of a work schedule and wage package offered to the union by the financially pressed city. The P.B.A. was angered by a change of hours that would raise a patrolman's work time from 243 days a year to 253 and shorten his weekends. It also insisted upon a pay raise of 6%, retroactive to July...
Late in the week P.B.A. and city negotiators agreed on a settlement giving the police a 6% wage boost retroactive to Sept. 1 this year. That would bring the base pay of patrolmen to $17,458 (plus a cost-of-living hike). In exchange the P.B.A. would agree to drop its court suit. But the P.B.A. delegates rejected the pact, and later several thousand off-duty police, some hiding behind false noses, marched on city hall. That left the city facing not only the threat of more demonstrations and rowdyism, but that gravest of concerns: some form of police strike...
...capita G.N.P.: $200. Exports: cashew nuts, sugar, cotton. Economy was hurt by the ten-year preindependence guerrilla war, which was followed by a flight of skilled whites and imposition of doctrinaire socialism. The country is heavily dependent upon transit trade with South Africa and $120 million a year in wage remittances from Mozambicans employed in its mines...
...opposition to it prompted the 22-day strike against the company on September 14--is a conscious first step for the union in its future plans for the auto industry. The increase in paid days off, union officials hope, will force auto industrialists to add more workers without wage cuts for union members already holding jobs...
Others express a "them-or-us" attitude toward the labor dispute, which centers primarily on union wage demands. "My reasons for opposing the strikers' demands are simple," Jane Spectre, a junior, said this week. "If we give them a pay raise, we'll get a tuition hike...