Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Automobile Workers (UAW) this week overwhelmingly rejected a contract negotiated for them by their leaders and the federally subsidized Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler workers had a simple reason for their resounding "no" vote: After working three years under a 1979 "bailout" contract-- which saved the company over $1 billion in wage reductions--the 50,000 men and women still employed by the shrunken auto maker feel entitled to more money...
...such move is liable to trigger harsh union reaction. In response to a relatively mild Kohl proposal for limiting public-sector wage increases, Monika Wulf-Mathies, leader of the country's 1 .2 million-member civil servants union, called the plan a "declaration of war," and threatened strike action if the proposal is carried out. Having long and patiently planned his parliamentary assault on the Chancellor's office, Kohl must now prepare for all the battles that his new job will entail...
...Hoping to squeeze out a few more screams (and mercilessly to drag the production out to full feature length) the story then goes on to an exorcism, when the mostly irrelevant Father Tom (Andrew Prine) risks his career, and his life, to wage war with the devil. Sonny's body serving as the battlefield...
...Players Association denied that it is willing to drop its wage-scale proposal, despite reports to the contrary...
...just stupid." Only a handful of players openly opposed the union in the strike's first days, but a few went along grumbling. "Austria is neutral," said New Orleans Place Kicker Toni Fritsch, an Austrian. New Orleans Player Representative Russell Erxleben polled his membership about dropping the wage-scale demand, perhaps a small crack in solidarity. Though negotiators were finally promising to meet over the past weekend, the players were not heartened by the news that the owners were assured of two weeks' TV money, to be repaid to the networks next season. be repaid to the networks...