Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has tried to stem the passive protest, claiming that the red and white background of the Black Madonna pins represents a misuse of Poland's national colors. The authorities have fined badge wearers as much as 5,000 zlotys ($60), or about half the average monthly wage. The same penalty applies to anyone caught organizing a newswalk. Some methods of retaliation are even harsher. Students arrested in demonstrations are routinely expelled from school. After workers at Swidnik's factory joined a 15-minute work stoppage on May 13, some strikers received pink slips. But the Poles show...
...great rise in two-income families has decreased, although not eliminated, the sting of unemployment. In 1941 only 29% of women were in the labor force, whereas today the figure is 52%. About half of all wage-earning families now have two or more salaries. Double joblessness, though, is becoming a problem. Last year the unemployment rate for women whose husbands were unemployed was about...
...Boston, the local Neighborhood Development and Employment Agency, which administers federally financed employment, is offering only 2,500 positions this summer, vs. 4,000 in 1981. The Boston Private Industry Council has tried to compensate partly for that by increasing the number of jobs it offers at the minimum wage ($3.35 an hour) for 550 to 750. Two thousand young people have already applied for those positions...
Most jobs are being snapped up even at the minimum wage, but some student applicants are still picky. Says Elizabeth Mead, jobs counselor at the Boston campus of hour. University of Massachusetts: "Students will not work for $3.35 an hour. They'd rather go home and live with Mommy for the summer or go on unemployment or take a college loan...
...first sign that this might be changing came the day before McCardell's resignation. The company's workers ratified a new 2½-year contract in which they surrendered about $200 million in earlier wage and benefit concessions in return for job security and other guarantees...