Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee also unanimously recommended that the Corporation see if companies comply with certain minimum wage and labor guidelines before investing in them...
Rumsfeld's resume reads like a litany of challenging tasks. Before 1977, when he began a successful career as president of the pharmaceutical firm G.D. Searle & Co. (1982 profits: $140 million on $1.04 billion in sales), Rumsfeld handled the war on poverty and then wage and price controls for Nixon, and served as Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary for Gerald Ford. But although highly ambitious, the former Illinois Congressman and Princeton wrestling captain does not go in for suicide missions. When Watergate loomed over the Nixon Administration, Rumsfeld engineered an appointment as Ambassador to NATO, as far away...
Manager Paul Keeler said "I was not able to be a pioneer" in providing a wage increase, explaining that. "In the industry, just about everyone pays the minimum wage. This was a compromise that worked out fine...
...didn't get the wage increase, but we got cash bonuses for the waiters," explained Roberts yesterday. "We made it clear that we are interested in pursuing wage gains. Next year we expect [our wage request] to be addressed...
...employees, all members of Local 26 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, continued to work last Thursday but asked customers not to patronize the establishments while they sought a wage hike. They had worked without a contract since last Monday, when their previous one-year pact expired...