Word: waging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came the turn of elegant Eddie Burke. Expanding his chest, he pledged to wage war on drug pushers and rapists if elected. A Baptist preacher exulted that Burke would create a "spiritual surge that will lift us into orbit for God." More down to earth, Committeeman Marty Tuchow explained: "Nostalgia is fine, but I have to be practical." Translation: Daley is buried, Byrne is mayor, and Byrne was for Burke. Twenty-four committeemen supported Burke...
Roderick was openly pressuring the United Steelworkers (U.S.W.), whose contract expires next August, to moderate wage demands and become more productive. The domestic industry still leads its major foreign competitors in productivity. In fact, it is doing considerably better than European rivals, who also suffer from aged plants and surging costs. But the Japanese are rapidly gaining in the productivity race. They earn less but produce almost as much steel per worker as their American competitors. Over the past decade, productivity growth in the domestic industry has declined from 3% a year to 2%, while wages and benefits have risen...
...also seeks the creation of an employee stock ownership plan, which some Senators are promoting as a way to give workers a stake in their firms and share in profit growth. But, following Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn's earlier attack on the "outrageous" United Auto Workers' wage settlement with Chrysler, the committee's most contentious call was for a three-year wage freeze. Potential saving to the company: $1.32 billion...
Sullivan called for a moratorium on wage increases in the fiscally strapped city, adding that if the city meets the police demands, it might encourage other city employees to ask for pay hikes...
Berrios said the U.S. Congress controls the Puerto Rican minimum wage and labor laws and added "They even tell us what kind of sausages we can eat. That's a colony--the U.S. commands everything in Puerto Rico...