Word: wages
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ladder to service and industry jobs. Donald Huddle, a member of the Texas Governor's Task Force on Immigration, created a stir last year when he estimated that a third of the commercial construction jobs in Houston were held by illegal aliens, who made an average wage of $4.64 an hour, 40% above the federal minimum wage of $3.35. In eastern Massachusetts in April, 26% of the 144 employed aliens picked up by the INS were earning more than $5.25 an hour, and 69% were being paid between minimum wage and $5.24 an hour...
...More than 300 people assembled for a rally in support of food service workers in their negotiations with Harvard. The union is asking for a one year contract with a dollar-an-hour, across the board wage hike, free medical insurance, and a dental plan for union members. The current contract runs out June...
Four years ago, just one of the University's top five wage-earners was a Med School official. But in 1981-1982--the latest year for which figures are publicly available--four were: Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 ($109,500), UHS director of surgery John R. Brooks '40 ($108,019), Higgins Professor of Physiology Howard Green ($85,500) and Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder ($85,000) Only Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, in third place with $86,500, stood in the way of a Med School sweep. (As a "public charity," Harvard is obliged to file...
...other hand, Bok prefers to tell deans and vice presidents of their forthcoming wages "after the fact." O'Brien also shuns preliminary talks, preferring to use "internal benchmarks" within the University--as well as talks with knowledgeable colleagues--to settle an employee's salary. And Melissa D. Gerrity, associate dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, says that "Generally, people don't call someone into an office and say, 'This is what I'm thinking about. 'They say "This is what you're going to get'" Wage determination at Harvard, she adds, "is just like a business a salary...
...addition, many companies new disclose an unprecedented amount of information on the labor practices of their subsidiaries in South Africa. Several firms release periodic reports detailing their South African subsidiaries' wage scales, Black training and advancement programs and support for projects in the Black community. Frequent meetings with shareholders concerned over the South Africa issue have at times resulted in disclosure of additional information and have exposed management to alternative viewpoints...