Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointed the Harvard-trained economist as the first black among the board's seven governors. Brimmer used the job to disseminate controversial, exhaustively documented opinions on black banks (they were more a symbol of black achievement, he thought, than a meaningful source of capital for economic development), minimum-wage laws (they worsened black unemployment by hindering the hiring of unskilled ghetto teenagers) and black capitalism (it was doomed to remain marginal unless blacks could develop large businesses that could compete in predominantly white markets). Now, with almost six years of his 14-year term remaining, Brimmer has resigned from...
...Medical Area District 65 organizers' main gripe is that their wages are below those of most area workers and that their raises have failed to match jumps in the cost-of-living. The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics figures on Boston-area workers are from one year ago, but even these statistics indicate a higher area pay-scale than the July 1974 wage schedule of Harvard workers. For instance, last year's starting secretaries working for "service"-related nonmanufacturing "establishments" in Boston earned from $135 to $152 a week while a starting secretary at Harvard now earns from...
...Like so many other things at Harvard, promotions and raises are awarded on Harvard's assessment of merit. Organizers find the concept, which often ignores experience and time considerations, elitist and ugly enough, but it is the system in practice that especially disturbs them. Although a worker earns yearly wage-hikes for any work above a "marginal" level, as that worker approaches the upper salary limit of the employment "grade," the possible increments in pay decrease drastically. Organizers maintain that Harvard can hold down salaries by refusing to promote workers who have attained the limit of their grades...
...strike went on for almost two more months, finally ending on July 25 after a series of marathon negotiations and shifting wage offers on both sides. At Commencement time, the University was offering a two-year contract to the printers, with pay hikes of 5.9 per cent in the first year and slightly more in the second, while the printers wanted a one-year pact with 10-to-14-per-cent raises...
Almost all the printers are back at work now, but the settlement could have a significant effect on the kinds of wage demands Harvard's other labor unions could make in the future...