Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts. Jackson is spending about $400,000, but Udall has spent only about $275,000 so far. And he fears that unless one or two of the liberal Democrats drop out after tomorrow, the liberal money will be split among them all, and no one will have enough to wage an effective campaign in New York. Even Bayh, with his large organization, will be paralyzed unless he has enough to make it work--money for telephones, literature, billboards, and radio and television time...
City officials often complain about excessive wage demands by labor unions, but Edward A. Hanna, the may or of Utica, N.Y. (pop. 86,000), has hit on the most draconian of solutions. He cut the employees in the department of public works from 240 to 70 in 18 months after he took office...
Conservative economists consider the economy too complex to ensure jobs for all workers without rigid wage and price controls. Unless the economy nosedives unexpectedly, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill seems unlikely to be enacted-and the rising economic trend remains Gerald Ford's best argument as he seeks to retain the presidency...
Lost Soviet citizens will not take alarm at or even perceive the strains in the Kremlin leadership. Nor will they be much concerned about upheavals in the world Communist movement. But like Western Sovietologists, Russia's wage earners will be greatly interested in what party leaders have to say about the state of the economy. Reason: there can scarcely be anyone in the Soviet Union who has not been made aware by shortages of everything from sausages to auto tires that something has gone gravely awry...
...union, whose members have been working without a contract since November 30, is demanding substantial wage increase, and curtailment of a University policy of hiring part-time non-union custodial help...