Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meany last month called for a $20 billion slash. Last week when the House Ways and Means Committee called for a reduction of $21.3 billion, Meany raised his figure to $30 billion. Said he: "Events are overtaking not only the President but the Congress." Meany also wants a minimum wage of $3 an hour and, to spur home building, mortgage rates lowered by Government action to 6%, a notion as simple as it is unworkable...
Balsam won't say exactly what he's up to, but he sponsors occasional workers' meetings and says he is "organizing against Harvard, not Stefani" because the University's labor relations policies are "paternalistic" and the workers need better wages and benefits. He says he hops for a "substantial wage increase" this spring, but will not give any specific details about his demands or organizing strategy...
Sources close to the union say Balsam's organizing drive is just getting off the ground but that he is tentatively aiming the campaign toward a wage increase well over 10 per cent and toward disciplining of some troublesome managers. Balsam is at the moment staying with the Cooks, but within the union he could turn out to be the kind of pivotal figure that Stefani was in the thirties...
There was an immediate uproar, and talk of a strike. But what became clear in that somber, three-hour-long meeting we had--the first one ever without Steve--was that the real hurt was not the wage cut but the fact that Steve had just decided to do it, without consulting anyone. We felt betrayed. We had always been one big happy family; all of a sudden Steve was asserting his authority over us as our employer...
...work it out together, avoiding a wage cut by raising prices. Things settled back down to normal, with Steve apologizing to this day for precipitating the crisis. He was right when he wrote the complaining customer that Steve's Ice Cream was not your everyday enterprise, despite the all-too American success story behind it. The priorities of the place are off: Steve apologizer to the workers and lets the obnoxious customers have it. Which makes it a special place to work. Long live the chocolate chip...