Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert V. Travers said the University and HUERA remain deadlocked on the issue of hiring non-union part-time employees, but are narrowing the gap between them on a wage hike proposal...
Harvard needed to wage a comeback in the foil bouts in order to have any chance of victory. Despite two wins by John Major, Cornell's Don Massiales, an all-Ivy selection, got a little help from his lamey that finished the Crimson...
...attract new employers, Hernandez has lately started stressing productivity. In his annual message to the legislature last month, he demanded that wage raises be limited to the amount of productivity increases and hinted that legislated fringe benefits would be reduced. "The progress of some," he declared, "cannot be at the cost of others' misery." Sounding like California's Jerry Brown, Hernandez declared that sac rifice rather than new miracles is on tomorrow's agenda. He said that his own government "overspends, is highly inefficient, unresponsive to the calls and needs of the people...
...Raise the wage base on which taxes are levied, perhaps to $25,000 in 1977. That would make the tax less regressive by hitting higher-paid workers more heavily...
...subcommittee chairman, Representative James Burke of Massachusetts, has lined up more than 100 co-sponsors for a bill that would raise the wage base, use general revenue money, and cut the payroll tax rate from the present 5.85% to 3.9%. But he faces stiff opposition. President Ford at his budget briefing argued that with any use of general revenues to finance Social Security, "you are in effect losing the concept that a person working is paying for his or her retirement." Social Security Commissioner James Cardwell fears that reliance on general revenues instead of payroll taxes would be "an open...