Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief negotiator, Rex Reed, met briefly with Watts several times last week, but the talks were fruitless. Watts, who has led three previous rounds of bargaining with AT&T since 1974 and has always won big wage gains for his union, predicted that the strike could go on "a very long time." Said he: "At the moment, I don't see any kind of an immediate agreement at all. If the company's negotiators have any intention of changing their position, they're the straightest-faced poker players I've ever been up against...
...provide a much needed tonic for the country's depressed economy. Irish unemployment is approaching 15%, with no turnaround in sight. The government has created some new jobs by providing tax incentives to high-tech businesses, but at a cost of higher government deficits and more taxes for wage earners. The government's share of potential offshore-oil revenues, which is expected to be between 8% and 16%, would wipe out a significant chunk of Ireland's $1.1 billion budget deficit. Until recently, Ireland's exploration for oil has concentrated on Porcupine Basin, a storm-whipped...
...many companies, it is not unusual for fired top-and middle-level executives to be provided with secretarial help, résumé-writing assistance and psychic support from counselors who help them vent anger and wage effective job campaigns. Bethlehem was the first big firm to give white-and blue-collar employees the same kind of help. It maintains "career continuation centers" for displaced people in Johnstown and Bethlehem, Pa., and in Lackawanna, N. Y., near Buffalo, site of an 83-year-old plant whose shutdown was announced three days after Christmas...
...country's network of company-and state-backed insurance programs assures treatment to virtually everyone; wage earners contribute as little as $5.20 a month to plans that provide lavish benefits. Critics complain that patients overuse the system for such woes as hangovers and general fatigue. Another factor that runs up the costs to the state is the high salaries of doctors, supplemented by their income from filling out prescriptions...
Among adults, stress seems to be rising to Western levels. According to the government, one of every 25 wage earners is treated annually at a mental hospital or clinic for a tension-related malady, a rise of 70% in 25 years. The feeling among some Japanese health professionals is that the system does not allow people many ways to release their anger. Men are allowed a few surly comments under the cover of drunkenness, and women sometimes take to their beds to show displeasure, but most of the time people just swallow their rage...