Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posters and recent editorials in China's leading papers insist that Mao never gave equal importance to the three objectives. His crucial message concerned the dictatorship of the proletariat, meaning that workers must continue to wage "class struggle" against the remnants of the bourgeoisie. A new Mao quote on this subject appeared last week in a front page editorial of the People's Daily. "What?" it asked incredulously. "Taking the three directives as the key link? Stability and unity do not mean writing off class struggle. Class struggle is the key link and everything else hinges...
...influence the balloting in the NLRB-authorized election against District 65 a few weeks ago. That election is currently being contested. Partial unionization is attendant with innumerable problems which are all-too common in other sectors of the economy; perhaps most fearsome among them is that of leapfrogging wage settlements. If employees in similar job classifications are paid different wages simply because they are represented by different unions, then an inherent upward instability is introduced into the bargaining process. When one wage settlement is reached, it is bound to be duplicated, if not exceeded, elsewhere, and equal wages become...
...capita income of Latin America, 63.4 per cent of the population had incomes below the federal poverty level in 1970. The recent recession had a devastating impact on Puerto Rico: unemployment is officially 20%, but unofficially admitted to be 35%. Even when employment is available, the average industrial wage, $2.29, is half the comparable figure for U.S. workers. Despite this drastic crisis, those Puerto Ricans suffering the most have undertaken little organized protest, perhaps because welfare benefits and federal food stamps (three-quarters of the population is eligible) keep them alive...
Even private education is available on the parallel market. Coaching of backward students and conducting cram courses for admission to universities have become big business for moonlighting teachers; their wages normally range from 100 to 145 rubles a month-lower than the 153-ruble wage of the industrial worker. A poll conducted at Moscow University has shown that 85% of freshmen in the math department had used private tutors to prepare for admission...
...past two years by hundreds of wildcat strikes. Coal executives say the stoppages prove that United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is not as good a leader as he is a negotiator. In 1974 he won his union (current membership: 135,000) a healthy contract-the average wage is $50 a day before overtime-but he still cannot keep his men in line. Miller loyalists argue that the industry is to blame. "When the companies push hard for production," says one union man, "they wind up killing people." He means that the men have to strike to protect themselves against...