Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 2½ years of controversy, the nation's first peacetime wage-price controls died last week, leaving disillusion and double-digit inflation in their wake. Almost immediately, prices began to scoot higher on a wide range of goods, including cars, light bulbs, liquid oxygen, some air-conditioning equipment and those basic materials, steel and copper...
Five new faces joined the month-old printers' strike against the University this week, demanding even higher wage increases than those sought by the 31 printers who have been on strike since April...
...printers from locals 300 and 16 are striking for a wage hike of at least 5.9 per cent plus a $10 per week across-the-board increase...
Daughty said that the typesetters are demanding a larger wage hike than the 5.9-per-cent increase plus $10 a week sought by the printers...
Neither Golden nor the typesetters would say exactly what wage increase the typesetters are seeking. John B. Butler, director of personnel, said yesterday that he has not been contacted by the union with regard to the typesetters' strike...