Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis, "New York must be perceived as changing its life-style." That has not been the case so far. Said one Big Mac official: "The city has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do what had to be done." For example, a deferral of a wage increase of up to 6% for city employees was supposed to take effect Sept. 1, but will not begin for most workers until Oct. 11 because of delays in reprogramming computers...
...Fiscal Control Board. He was supposed to deliver details of how and when the city was going to chop the rest of the deficit, year by year. Instead, Beame presented a nine-page outline. Among other things, he proposed to trim thousands of more employees through attrition, continue the wage freeze for two more years, and try to save on equipment purchases, building rentals and capital construction. But to the dismay of the board members, many of them top businessmen, the document was maddeningly vague...
...mayor's austerity plans outraged city union leaders. They had agreed to a partial one-year wage freeze only after Beame agreed last summer not to lay off any more workers except in an extreme emergency. The control board seemed to be forcing him to defer wage increases in the city's labor contracts for another two years. Further, union leaders were upset by the board's rejection of the agreement that ended a five-day teachers' strike last month; the board found the settlement too expensive...
...account the projected impact of the temporary cut now in effect. The present rates would have produced a $17 billion reduction in taxes next year. Thus, in reality, the Ford cut would amount to $11 billion, which would translate into an increase of $2 to $8 in the typical wage earner's weekly paycheck...
...understood that he couldn't make it in the world by working on an oil rig like his father. With no education and no wealthy background he had to steal money from somebody--and first he stole it from the bosses, then fleeced his membership while getting them huge wage hikes (he denies this in his book). He had little conception of working people rising together; he had fierce loyalty to his men, but Hoffa never believed in such a mysterious thing as class solidarity...