Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concluded he had no chance of getting work. He plans to sneak into Texas. Says he: "Better to be arrested there than to starve here." Mauricio Martinez, 18, and his best friend Juan Pablo Fulgencio, 20, each earned about $7,000 during the 18 months they held minimum-wage jobs in a Chicago meat-packing plant. Whatever did not go toward rent and food was spent on the flashy clothes that seem sharply out of place in Huandacareo. No longer comfortable in his hometown, Fulgencio plans to go back to the U.S. Martinez is seeking a job in Mexico because...
...trade deficit is starting to move in the right direction," said Lawrence Chimerine, president of Wharton Economics. "But most people forget that adjustments bringing this about have a negative side effect: a weaker dollar, wage cuts, a squeezing of purchasing power and a pushing up of interest rates...
...HARD not to jump to conclusions about why the council would decide to employ a former leader looking for a part-time job in Cambridge or why such a secretary would end up with a princely wage. I asked the student government's leaders anyway...
...father died. At 24, the young rural mechanic, one of seven children, grew bored with his job and moved to the Baltic port of Gdansk, where he became a shipyard electrician. He describes himself as a typical peasant worker, "not really belonging to the city, nor the countryside, a wage earner in appearance only, profoundly attached to his farm." Such men and women were pragmatic, practicing Catholics with little interest in the abstract Communist orthodoxy of Poland's Soviet-backed rulers. Their main concern was poverty. Shipyard conditions were harsh. Once, Walesa writes, 22 workers were burned alive while welding...
...employee buyout offer that kicked off the rumpus gestated for two years. It emerged from a bitter 29-day pilots' strike against United over a ^ two-tier wage scale that provided lower pay for new hires. After the dispute, F.C. ("Rick") Dubinsky and other leaders of United's branch of the Air Line Pilots Association began nurturing the buyout notion, which the union members code-named "Operation Stealthco...