Word: waging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealer supply, are lined up outside plants in rows resembling Flanders Field. President Lee lacocca, who will become Chrysler chief executive by year's end, made an unprecedented appearance at the United Auto Workers' bargaining table last Friday to ask the union to accept a two-year wage and benefit freeze...
...brightly painted room at the airy Methodist Church in Palmyra, Wis., resembles any nursery school. But the kids in Palmyra are not the usual class. Their parents are migrant farm workers, mostly Spanish-speaking of Mexican descent, who travel north from Texas to harvest onions in Wisconsin. Their average wage is $3.40 an hour. Families are on the road during June, September and October, school months for most other youngsters. Migrant children are often left by themselves, to pass the summer days playing in the dirt or escaping the heat under trucks and battered cars, while both parents work...
...Labor Department's plan to have private colleges pay the minimum wage to proctors and resident tutors would be "very difficult" for Harvard, C. Burris Young, associate dean of freshmen, said yesterday...
Ellen Porter, a senior adviser, said last March minimum wage is not an issue. "We could prove that proctors have more than adequate compensation--it's a fat job," she said...
...Labor Department lost the first round in court and is appealing. Senator Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) has presented a bill to the Senate allowing resident assistants to be exempt from minimum wage laws...