Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Busting Budgets. The unions have won spectacular wage gains in recent years. Among the higher top-base annual salaries, which are reached after varying years of service and without promotion: $18,000 for firemen and policemen in Chicago, $16,681 for teachers in Detroit with only a bachelor's degree, and $15,731 for sanitation men in New York. Naturally, people who earn promotions get more than that. Unions have also won pensions that range from generous to excessive and threaten to bust many a budget in the future. In New York, for example, sanitation men hired since...
...Boston faces a $20 million departmental deficit, chiefly because of the cost of court-ordered school desegregation. Even so, to head off a labor confrontation, Mayor Kevin White last week agreed to give some 3,500 municipal employees an 8% wage increase...
...have managed to avoid trouble. Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty has pared the city's work force from 7,200 to 5,400 in five years, partly through attrition. St. Louis' 13,000 employees wisely decided to help the city out of its pinch by not pushing for wage increases this year...
...AFSCME: "Public officials play a double-barreled game. They promise expansion of services and contraction of taxes. When they can't deliver, they make us the scapegoats." In fact, according to the Labor Department, union settlements in industry during the first quarter of this year have produced wage increases of about 12.5% while wage settlements in most cities have been averaging about half as much...
...agreement provides for a wage increase of 35 cents retroactive to July 1 and a further increase of 15 cents beginning March...