Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers--shortly before the workers may be able to hold their first union-forming election. It is doubtful, however, that the workers will let the raises blind them to their need for a union. Despite the generous pay raises, the workers still have no voice whatever in determining the wage and working policies that govern their lives here, nothing to guarantee that next year's raises will be as good as this year...
...Among other things, he has proposed setting a national goal of 2.6 million housing starts a year, including 2 million federally subsidized units for low-and middle-income families, creating a temporary agency to provide emergency capital funds to business and giving the Government the authority to delay wage and price hikes. Such views place him in the Democratic mainstream, though Republican critics regard him as a big spender who promises more than he can deliver...
...troublesome and to unleash the enormous resources of this country. What has happened is that there has been a tendency to deal with effects and not causes, so we have had a lot of patchwork, ad hoc solutions that do not deal with the overriding issues of growth and wage-price stability...
...powerful miners' union cost the Tories the general elections last February, his more mellow conciliatory tone in the unsuccessful October campaign cost him the support of party hardliners. The right wing also bridled at Heath's use of government intervention to prop up ailing firms and restrain wage demands...
...immediate cause was a strike by the Guardia Civil, Peru's 22,000-man paramilitary police force. The whole force walked off the job after the government offered a wage increase of $8 a month instead of the $40 that the cops had asked for. Most units returned to work when ordered to do so, but the 1,200-man radio-patrol force based in downtown Lima held out. The police locked themselves inside the Victoria barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum...