Word: wages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blamed on a sluggish economy. The annual growth of the gross national product averaged 3.2% in the 1970s, a faster pace than in the Eisenhower years, when the prevalence of poverty declined. Murray, however, does not fully address the argument that growth was sporadic during the 1970s and that wage increases were badly eroded by inflation...
...final negotiating session, restaurant owners asked workers to accept a wage freeze and a ten cent pay increase in place of health insurance, said union President Domenie M. Bozzotto...
...That's not negotiations, that's Howdy Doody Time," Bozzotto said, adding that the offer actually decreases the employees' wage and benefits...
...prior years, Canadian autoworkers have usually gone along with the U.S. contracts. This time the goals of the two countries' workers are very different. U.S. employees, concerned about production's shifting to nonunion plants overseas, gave up their customary wage demands in exchange for job-security guarantees. But no Canadian auto plants have been closed, and no Canadian GM workers are on layoff. Robert White, the aggressive head of the Canadian U.A.W., has let it be known that his members do not want the profit sharing or lump-sum payments that are part of the just approved...
Kerry, who first challenged the other Senate candidates to wage a "PAC-free" campaign, said he was returning the money because of a "perception" that he was not holding to that standard and because he wanted to focus on "the issues in this campaign...