Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked Congress to resurrect by Labor Day the Cost of Living Council, a Government agency that once administered wage-price controls but died on June 30, two months after the controls. Ford's COLC-like one that Nixon proposed in his last weeks-would be empowered to monitor price and wage increases and officially decry those that seem excessive, but it would not be able to order those rises rolled back or even delayed...
...Miller will begin the year's most important contract bargaining by the end of this month. Miller, who ousted the disgraced Tony Boyle in an election in 1972, has never negotiated a contract, and needs a fat pact to solidify his position. Among his desired concessions: a "substantial" wage hike, sick pay and a cost-of-living escalator clause, a pension raise and stricter safety regulations...
Ford was pre-eminently a loyal party workhorse and proud of it. He could be counted on to vote against most all Democratic legislation, worthy or not. He voted no on subsidized housing, aid to education, Medicare, the antipoverty program, minimum wage bills. In 1973, he was one of 70 Congressmen to vote to sustain all of Nixon's vetoes. On occasion, he has taken a more conservative stand than the White House. As a representative of an auto-manufacturing state, he voted against using any of the highway trust funds to pay for mass transit. "If Jerry...
...such fervor while so thoroughly readjusting their private dogmas to deal with events. Like an Elmer Gantry intransigent in the pulpit, Nixon knew all about sin and situational ethics in the political streets. The ideological flexibility that allowed him to embrace China and Russia, a guaranteed annual income, and wage and price controls, always troubled conservatives...
...magnitude of the rise came as a shock to Government officials. John Stark, executive director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, said that it "has dire implications for the consumer price index." He fears that it will "accentuate future wage demands" by workers who can see the buying power of their paychecks going down...