Word: wages
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even while evincing such optimism, the two parties have continued to circle each other warily. A proposal to index Social Security to the wage level rather than the consumer price index--which rose in 1980 twice as fast as wages--came immediately under fire from the AFL-CIO and from the American Association of Retired Persons. In retaliation. Dole demanded recently that the Democrats present the first reform package in the upcoming session...
...concern now is, how do you sustain it?" says Massachusetts Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas, who insists that the state's future depends on investment in education, research and training of its human resources. Some worrisome problems remain. The average wage for Massachusetts' largely nonunionized high-tech workers is $7.48 (national average: $8.50), hardly enough to support a family in a state with some of the highest living costs in the nation. Warns Bluestone: "You are getting a dual economy. At one end you have relatively low-wage, highly unstable jobs in retail trades and service...
...petition recommends ending "aid to Israel that enables the government of Israel to wage war in Lebanon, to establish settlements in Palestinian land and to deprive the Palestinian people of heir civil and political right...
...work more closely with the rank and file was inspired in part by an employee meeting last Tuesday at which Phillip Voight. Yale University's chief steward, out lined the negotiating strategy that he said helped Yale food service workers win numerous wage and benefit concessions...
...current wage and benefit scale saves Harvard $2 million a year, he said, adding. We're in the education business, not the food service business...