Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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British labor, warned his colleagues not to press wage claims that could put firms out of business. "A wonderful wage agreement is of no value if the firm with whom we have negotiated doesn't employ people any more," he said. "The main objective in the fight against inflation should be to increase the value of the pay packet, not necessarily the amount of paper...
...President had urged Congress to make available only $3 billion to federal agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over, the Administration will move to clamp controls on construction wages and the prices of building materials, despite the President's oft-stated opposition to wage-price controls of any kind...
...fields is in fact quite high--because of the lack of controls on child labor. The American Friends' Service Committee points out that "the use of children as industrial laborers was outlawed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, yet in 1970 one fourth of the farm wage workers in the United States are under 16 years old." The AFSC and the Department of Labor concur in estimating that 800,000 children work in agricultural labor. The Department of Labor found that nine out of ten migrant children fail to keep up with school work, and repeat grades...
...that Chavez and his supporters have deliberately misrepresented the facts to gain public support. As former National Legislative director for the UFW, you are one of the people I am talking about. You have continually quoted only the base rate pay, leaving out the piece rates, for your hourly wage statistics as you have done in this letter. Even these are incorrect. The UFW has also quoted your health statistics for years, but no one has been able to find where you got them and the USDA isn't claiming them. On the farm income figures in the letter from...
...problem which is Californian in nature: the boycott of scab grapes, Gallo wines and iceberg lettuce. According to the same source (U.S. Dept. of Ag.) there are well over 200,000 farm workers in California (1967, latest statistics available). Of these 1/3 are migrants. In 1968, the average hourly wage in California for a farm worker was $1.75 per hour. This included permanent and seasonal workers. BUT, farm workers in the table and grape industry were earning only $1.15 per hour...