Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more serious, Mr. Ferrara neglects to mention that the lettuce workers referred to are under union contract. The Teamsters have been forced by pressure from the UFW to negotiate contracts with higher wage rates. If Mr. Ferrara's point is that the main issue between the UFW and the Teamsters is not wages, he is correct (although wages are one issue, and the UFW contracts do provide higher wages). The main issues are health and safety (according to the national Safety Council, farmworkers' lethal injury rates are 300 per cent higher than the national average); pesticide control; child labor...
...that when that contract was first signed, the Gallo workers walked out because of their support of the UFW, and that this September the scabs who were brought in to replace them walked out on the grounds that the Teamsters were not enforcing the provisions of their contract. The wage figures Mr. Ferrara cites are only meaningful as long as the Teamsters are willing to enforce them, and so far their record has been absysmal...
...workers in the New York City area. The settlement means that UPS's 4,500 drivers and inside workers will earn $7.59 an hour after three years, compared with their current pay of $5.92. They also won a cost-of-living escalator and fringes that will lift their wage-and-benefit package by some...
From jungle to jungle goes Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, late of the Imperial Japanese Army. Since last March when Onoda emerged from the Philippine jungle where he personally continued to wage World War II for 29 years, the doughty infantryman has been mulling over his future habitat. Finally he settled on Brazil. "It offered me many more job opportunities than Japan," he said as he learned how to samba in a Rio nightspot. He was not referring to Brazil's secret police, who war against enemies of the state, but to a farm in the interior...
...sympathy for the working class, but their numbers are small: less than 10% of the editors belong to the National Union of Journalists, the labor organization that represents most of the country's newspaper workers. In recent weeks, however, an N.U.J. drive against the high-profit, low-wage provincial papers outside London has threatened to change that situation. What began as a pay dispute on the "provincials" has ballooned into a national row over newspaper economics, editors' rights and the specter of censorship by labor...