Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject, though, so worries city executives as their labor relations. Like workers everywhere, city employees are pressing for fat wage settlements-the range has lately been 8% to 10%-and often ignoring legal bars to striking...
...National Chairman Robert S. Strauss unleashed an economic recovery package Friday night that received little debate and a majority on a voice vote. But interviews after the vote revealed that a good number of delegates disagreed with specific proposals to legislate national no-fault insurance and to implement mandatory wage-price-profit controls. They said they voted for the economic package, though, because the Democrats had to show the public they stood for something different from the Republicans...
Brain Trust. With the legislative machinery in more disciplined order, Democrats hope to pass a spate of bills that have been bottled up or ignored: mandatory wage-price controls, national health insurance, a major public works program to relieve unemployment, tax reform including a scaling down of the oil-depletion allowance, an export monitoring system that will more effectively prevent the sale abroad of commodities in short supply at home, and the revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an agency created by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to help business survive the Depression...
...rise has prompted a flurry of federal investigation. Last week, as its first official act of consequence, the Government's 3½-month-old Council on Wage and Price Stability held two days of hearings about sugar prices. The council, which has no authority to order price rollbacks, carefully refrained from fixing blame. But it did present a study made by its staff that concluded that all sections of the sugar industry -cane and beet growers and refiners -have made "very large windfall gains." For example, Amstar Corp., the nation's largest sugar refiner, has recorded...
During the reigns of John L. Lewis and W.A. (Tony) Boyle, when it came time to negotiate new contracts, there was only one vote that counted in the union's 185-member wage policy committee--that of Lewis or Boyle...