Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Representatives from two committees now organizing Harvard's salary-and-wage employees will attend a conference of Boston-area university office workers this afternoon to discuss legal rights, affirmative action, and union organizing...
...question on "destabilizing" foreign governments followed Ford's confirmation that the Nixon Administration had authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to wage an $8 million campaign in 1970-73 to aid opponents of Chilean President Salvador Allende's Marxist government (see box page 21). Until last week, members of both the Nixon and Ford Administrations had flatly denied that the U.S. had been involved in undermining Allende's regime. They continue to insist that the CIA was not responsible for the 1973 coup that left Allende dead and a repressive right-wing junta in his place...
...Wage Hikes. For the past seven months, Labor has tried to stem inflation, but with little success. Wilson has relied on persuasion to limit wage hikes. His chosen instrument has been "the social contract," an informal agreement between trade unions and government in which union leaders have pledged to seek salary increases only if they are needed to maintain their members' standard of living. So far, the social contract has not been tested by any major labor-management dispute. Many are skeptical whether Wilson's policy of persuasion alone could restrain wages if subjected to a series...
...Tories are making inflation and Wilson's failure to handle it the campaign's main issue. They have promised to avoid the "confrontation politics" that led Heath to try last winter to force wage guidelines on the coal miners (leading to the miners' disastrous 11-week slowdown and 4-week strike). But the Conservatives insist that they are still prepared to enact laws to enforce wage-price restraints if necessary. They are also calling for strict control of public spending and for a more moderate growth of the money supply. These measures could probably slow the surge...
...electorate) took a plague-on-both-your-houses attitude and voted for the resurgent Liberal Party. Largely because of Jeremy Thorpe's vibrant personality, the Liberals appeal to voters who are turned off by the leadership of both major parties. The Liberals are committed to mandatory wage and price controls. Yet they also call for increases in the minimum wage and pensions-measures that would probably add to inflation. Although Thorpe's party will emerge from the elections a distant third, it could garner enough seats to deprive either major party of a majority. The Liberals might then...