Word: waging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...splashed across his front pages his own ten-point program for Britain's salvation. His main points: ¶ All-out effort for empire self-sufficiency ("The empire comes first . . . Without the empire not only is there no hope for the future-there is no future"). ¶ A minimum wage of ?6 ($16.80) for British workers, but at the same time "no limitation on dividends. Pioneers should be encouraged to go into . . . new industries...
Thoughts of Spring. Churchill, for the record, dampened his friend's ardor: "Lord Beaverbrook's opinions are his own but . . . must not be taken as representing the considered policy of the Conservative Party." But Churchill specifically rejected only one of Beaverbrook's points-the minimum wage. Despite past political differences, it looked as if Churchill and The Beaver might be allies again in the stormy election weather that lay ahead...
...local affiliated with the A.F.L. Teamsters and called a strike. Jergens knew when it was time to make a concession; he passed out a blanket 15% wage increase. The strike ended, and the workers quit the union. Nevertheless, an appeals court found Jergens guilty of unfair labor practices and ordered him to bargain with the union. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that decision, thus requiring Jergens to sit down and bargain with the Teamsters even though the union may no longer represent any of his employees...
...series of experiments, according to Skinner, deals with the "reward principle," that is, the amount of work a creature will perform in gambling against a future pay-off. Skinner compares this with "the incentive for wage-earning...
...last week the Queuille cabinet had agreed that the lowest-paid workers must have wage bonuses. M. Queuille assumed that the bonus tables would be worked out with himself as arbiter, but Socialist Labor Minister Daniel Mayer abruptly refused to accept this. Queuille had to resign...