Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flair, Perón seemed to lack his old ruthlessness. He hesitated to take strong action against the terror ist leftist guerrillas, whose kidnapings of businessmen had frightened away foreign investors. He wisely imposed a tough "social pact," an agreement between employers and workers that amounted to a wage-price freeze, momentarily reducing inflation from 80% to 30% annually, but then gave in to demands for enormous wage hikes by journalists, the military and the police...
...poor earned her an immense following, Perón enthralled the masses with his speeches from the balcony at the Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. He followed up his pledges of social change with real reforms: the establishment of a social security system, construction of low-cost housing, wage hikes and the lengthening of workers' vacations, public health programs against tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy, and the encouragement of collective bargaining...
...doing so at a time when farm costs are still high by historic standards, they are adding substantially to food prices. Food processors and retailers assert that they need the money to pay steadily rising bills of their own. Atlanta-based Colonial Stores, for example, reports that its wage costs have risen 10% to 12% in the past year. Gasoline and electric costs have shot up as much as 50% in the past eight months; and for some food processors, the price of tin-plated steel used to make cans has leaped 30%. Los Angeles Wholesaler Randolph Price asserts: "There...
...said the union's new offer calls for part of the wage increase to be payable immediately upon settlement of the strike. The printers would get the rest in November, when the second year of the contract, which expired last November, would begin...
Norton said Harvard's highest offer so far has been for a seven per cent wage increase in the second year of the contract...