Word: wages
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...deployment of the missile by refusing to approve funds for the Dense Pack basing plan. A move in the House last July to cancel MX production failed to pass by a mere three votes. A similar measure in the Senate lost by just four. The Administration is expected to wage an all-out fight to gain funding in the lameduck session since the new House, with 26 more Democrats than the present body, is expected to be even less receptive to the Administration's military spending plans...
...public has been making it too easy on these people. There's no reason for them to go out and get a job." Complains Mollie Cruter, a Houstonian who has visited the camp on occasion to help out: "They say they won't work for a minimum wage. What do they want? This is the recession." In reply, some residents argue that a minimum-wage job paying less than $7,000 a year is not much better than what they have at Tent City. Says Richard Aldridge, a former $250-a-day diesel mechanic...
SUCH RECKLESS WAGE AND PRICE increases inevitably translate into cost overruns. Cost overruns in defense procurement have been so huge for so long that they've almost lost their power to shock--but not quite. In the past 30 years, only 10 percent of all new weapons systems have been brought in under budget. Between March and July, the cost of one system--the Maverick air-to-ground missile--increased by 25 percent. McDonnell-Douglas told the Navy last month that the cost of another new weapon, the F-18 fighter, would increase by a third from its original price...
Mills said the union's twin demands for a shorter work day and more pay is a compromise position and reflects Local 285's view that "we realize it's hard times and we're not looking for wage gains like we've gotten in the past...
...union is pressing its demands under an unusual "reopener" clause in its two-year contract. Rather than setting wages for both years, the contract calls for management to make a new wage offer at the end of the first year. If the offer increase wages by less than 75 percent of the year's rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the union has the right to negotiate for more...