Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retrospect, it appeared that almost everyone had helped create the economic problems responsible for the collapse. A series of governments dominated by the Christian Democrats encouraged too speedy and too easy a recovery from three years of recession. Labor unions, bolstered by Socialist and Communist support, made excessive wage demands. When these were not fulfilled, they struck until the country was groggy. Affluence-seeking consumers did their best to make the dolce vita permanent. Inevitably, inflation began to spiral toward a current rate of 20% a year. New worker protests took place, including a massive "park-in" by Rome taxi...
...union is asking would send suit prices soaring and open the way to even more foreign competition from Europe, Canada and Japan. Moreover, a years-long style trend toward slacks, sports shirts and other casual wear has so hurt suitmakers that they say they cannot afford a substantial wage increase. Plummeting sales have reduced the number of men's suits produced from a high of 21.8 million units in 1965 to 16.7 million last year. At week's end both sides were meeting in Washington with Federal Mediator W.J. Usery Jr., but there were no signs...
...mess of pottage he sells us." Some delegates also noted privately that the union's younger members tend to see Woodcock (and other top U.A.W. officials) as being management-oriented. That may not coincide with the opinion of the auto executives, from whom Woodcock wrung an 11.6% wage in crease in last year's negotiations, and who now will have to face him across the bargaining table one more time...
...equal work is a familiar slogan of the women's lib movement. It has also been the law of the land for large companies for a decade, but a law that was little noted nor long remembered. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court decided its first sex-discrimination wage case, and five of the "Nine Old Men" handed down a ruling that should be a sharp spur for industries to up women's wages...
...glassware and other items. The states' laws prohibited women from working evenings, and in order to induce men to do so, they were paid twice as much as women day inspectors. Even after women were allowed to work nights, the custom of hiring only men persisted. Though the wage difference shrank, the night inspectors continued to get higher pay. The Supreme Court has now concluded that the situation "reflected a job market in which Corning could pay women less than men for the same work"-just what the 1963 Equal Pay Act was trying to cure. Across-the-board...