Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phelps-Dodge copperworkers struck on July 1, 1983 after the company failed to sign a standard, industry-wide contract which all of the other companies in the industry did. Even after offers of substantial wage and benefit cuts by the copper workers, the company refused to continue to negotiate, but instead it hired non-union workers and began a movement to decertify the United Steel Workers of America from the right to bargain collectively on behalf of the workers. This means, in effect, that the copper mines would be de-unionized simply by firing all of the union labor...
...stressed productivity as the solution to China's ills. According to Deng, every worker must "find a thousand and one . ways to make the country prosperous," because "when our state is powerful, all will be well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened to reflect individual merit. Combined with the government's plans for imminent price decontrol through the removal of state subsidies, these policies represented the most sweeping--and riskiest--steps yet in the piecemeal revolution Deng is pursuing...
...guerrillas, the partnership with Salvadoran laborers offers more than a windfall profit from economic blackmail. There is no evidence that the Liberation Front charges workers a fee for its bargaining "services," but involving themselves in the wage negotiations adds to the rebels' political weight. Last November the rebels began distributing leaflets in one of their mountainous northern strongholds, Chalatenango department, urging local peasants who travel south for the coffee harvest to band together for negotiating purposes. At about the same time, a full-page advertisement appeared in a newspaper in the capital, San Salvador, putting forth wage and working demands...
...year. Some State Department officials call the additional request "unbelievable." Shultz had urged Israel to trim its $23 billion budget for fiscal 1985 by at least a billion dollars beyond the $1.5 billion in cuts already planned. He also suggested an end to the system of tying wage and benefit increases to inflation, which is rising at an annual rate of 486%, as well as cutbacks in subsidies on such basic commodities as bread and milk...
Ustinov owed his position at the top of the mammoth Soviet military machine to a simple truth: no matter how daring a general may be, he cannot wage and win wars if no one provides him with weapons. In that category, Ustinov excelled. During a career in the armaments industry that spanned five decades, he made certain that Soviet arsenals were never empty and lived to see his country surpass the U.S. in arms production...