Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last September narrowed the candidates to three: Norfolk Southern, the Alleghany Corp. of New York City and an investor group led by Hotelier J. Willard Marriott Jr. Two weeks ago, all 19 of Conrail's unions voted to recommend the Alleghany bid because the firm promised a more lucrative wage- and-job-protection package...
...equal pay for equal work, with an adequate minimum wage...
...undergraduate demonstrators gathered outside President Bok's office yesterday afternoon to wage the second protest this week against Harvard's work holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa...
...Salvador, U.S. hopes are pinned to President Jose Napoleon Duarte. After winning in a free election last year, he moved cautiously but firmly against El Salvador's notorious death squads and opened negotiations with Nicaraguan-supported leftist rebels while continuing to wage war against them. But Duarte faces strong opposition from right-wingers who deplore both his reform plans and negotiations with the rebels; the rightists hope to win a majority in the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly in March, and some U.S. analysts think they have a chance. If Duarte falls or is rendered ineffective, prospects for defeating leftist revolution look...
...pound slipped to $1.12, and the Bank of England started raising some interest rates. The economic recovery has left untouched the 13% rate of unemployment. Brittan maintains that the government could halt the increase during the year with measures such as youth-training programs, the relaxation of minimum-wage laws and the removal of social security taxes on low-wage workers and young people...