Word: wages
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According to the latest proposal, Cambridge teachers will receive a 3 percent wage increase retroactive to Sept. 1, 1984, an additional 2 percent as of Jan. 1, 1985, and a final 5 percent salary increase effective Sept 1, 1985, said Albert H. Giroux, official spokesman for the Cambridge School Department...
...seemingly minor differences in the bills loom very large when viewed from the perspective of those who would be hurt. The tax credit for new investments, for example, is worth some $29 billion a year to corporations; they see it as vital to a sustained recovery and would wage a fierce fight to keep it. Business also enjoys some $19 billion annually in tax gains from accelerated depreciation schedules. The total tax breaks for business under the current code will amount to $95 billion this year. Most of them were designed as incentives to encourage economic growth, modernize plants...
...letter is the latest in a long series of Catholic pronouncements on economic questions. Beginning with Pope Leo Kill's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which stressed the right of individuals to a living wage, the church has consistently called for improvements in the lot of workers. In 1919 the American bishops put forth a Program for Social Reconstruction that urged the establishment of a minimum wage, social security and un employment insurance. Pope John Paul II's 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens decried what he considered the tendency of unregulated capitalism to reduce workers to the status of instruments...
Early this week his government announced the strongest medicine it has yet imposed to correct Israel's economic ills: a three-month freeze on all prices, wages, profits and taxes. The plan, which is designed to cut the inflation rate in half by January, was approved both by the Histadrut, the giant labor federation that represents about 1.5 million workers, and by the Manufacturers Association. Neither liked the plan very much, but both realized that some sort of drastic belt tightening was essential. As Avi Pelossof, a spokesman for the manufacturers association, put it, "In the last...
...Although wage increases were not the major thrust of the strike, the contract guarantees a 2 percent minimum wage increase for non gratuity workers--bartenders and cooks--after three years of employment...