Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly lie deeper than in an academic interest in maintaining University-wide organization. Any indications that the huge, sedentary bloc of largely-female clerical and technical workers is asserting its rights and will join a union poses grim possibilities for Harvard indeed: the costs to the University of negotiated wage increases or of a strike, for example. Certainly, Harvard would want to keep these workers disenfranchised...
...prices for fuel oil and petroleum-based fertilizers have aggravated the worst inflation in the nation's modern history, 27% last year. In response to spiraling prices (the cost of a kilogram of wheat increased from 10? to 13? last month alone), railway workers are demanding a 75% wage boost; their pay now ranges from about $35 a month for unskilled laborers to $160 for engineers, roughly the prevailing scale for Indian industrial workers...
Ever since the typographers' contract with the papers expired in March 1973, both sides have been haggling over the introduction of automated typesetting technology, which is now widely used by papers across the country. Powers has insisted on higher wage increases than those won by eight other unions, ironclad job security, and greater union jurisdiction over the new equipment than the publishers are offering. To add bite to these demands, Powers aimed a "coordinated action" at the Daily News in mid-April. Printers were ordered to work at different speeds: "normal, slow and very slow." This tactic played havoc...
...Ford announced price boosts averaging $163 (including $50 for optional equipment that is now standard) on its 1974 models, only five months after agreeing, as did General Motors and American Motors, to hold prices steady for the rest of the model year in exchange for early exemption from formal wage-price controls. Chairman Henry Ford II contended that the company's costs have risen so sharply as to release it from the agreement under some language granting exemptions in the case of unforeseen economic developments. Indeed, he said, prices on 1975 models would have to go "hundreds of dollars...
...called a 2.9% price increase by Chrysler, which had not signed the price-restraint agreement, "a display of consummate gall." He confined himself to calling the Ford increase "unwarranted" and conceded that Ford's data "indicate that costs per unit have risen above those projected." Since general wage-price controls have expired, Dunlop cannot order a rollback; to get the Ford increase canceled or reduced he would have to go to court, and it is doubtful that the White House would permit the Justice Department to take the case. Since he has no other option, Dunlop's only...