Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Mine Workers' newly elected president, Arnold Miller, has taken office in a union wracked by scandal but vows to "get tough with the operators until they scream." Miller's tough approach consists of demands for a 20 per cent wage hike, higher safety standards and a rise in the ante contributed by mine operators to the Union pension fund from $.80 to $2.40 per ton of coal. These benefits would increase the industry's manpower costs by only 50 per cent, while coal prices have doubled in the last four years. Miller is threatening the coal industry with...
...response to union demands, industry officials are pointing to comparatively high wage levels of $50 a day and a worker absenteeism rate of over 15 per cent. But mine owners were slow to adjust to the operating standards of the 1969 National Mining Safety Act and do not relish the prospect of accepting more stringent Union safety regulations. The industry's sole defense against Union demands for higher pensions is their supposedly inflationary effect. But the operators just don't have enough leverage to counter the new bargaining power labor enjoys...
...truth is that most farmworkers' wages are far from substandard. Agricultural workers usually earn a base-pay hourly wage plus a piece rate for the amount of work they do. Payroll records on file with the California Department of Employment show that farmworkers were averaging from $4.50 to $ 5.50 an hour with piece rates before there was any farmworkers union...
Payroll records on file with the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Wage and Hour Commission show that lettuce averaged $6.44 an hour in 1972. The Washington Post reported in August 1972 that lettuce workers earn as much as $12,000 a year...
...police regime that has by law excluded the indigenous people of its land from the basics of survival. The average arrest rate of Africans for passbook violations is over 3,000 per day; the violator is subject to fail, fines, and/or whipping with no trial. The average monthly wage for an African is 7 rand ($9.80). South Africa has the world's largest hanging rate, with 118 executed in 1968 alone. The passbook has been called the pillar of apartheid, the main tool with which the white-ruling clique keeps the African majority under its thumb...