Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fisk workshops emphasized voluntarist remedies, such as black church programs and promoting home ownership among working-class blacks. They also urged a "domestic Marshall Plan," as well as wage and price controls. Although the black family's problems do not seem soluble by quick fixes, there are a few heartening signs. Among black teenagers, the birth rate has declined slightly; more effective access to contraception could accelerate that trend. Some recent research has found that the "culture of poverty" is escapable. According to one University of Michigan study, most children from poor families do not become impoverished adults...
...should adopt practices and policies aimed at eliminating all aspects of apartheid in the workplace (including unequal pay and the underrepresentation of non-whites in management and supervisory positions) and improving employees' lives outside the workplace in such areas as housing, schooling, and health facilities; establish an adequate minimum wage; and adopt policies permitting non-white employees to engage in collective bargaining. The Committee also concluded that U.S. banks should not make loans to the South African government or its public corporation...
...also served as chairperson of the Wage Stabilization Board starting in 1952 and Watergate Special Prosecutor from...
Many experts believe that lavish raises for corporate higher-ups will hurt the U.S. economy. Big executive paychecks, they fear, could spark an upsurge in inflation because rank-and-file workers and union leaders can use them to justify higher wage demands. Moreover, higher wages would make the U.S. even less competitive with foreign producers than it is at present...
...beachhead in the U.S. In 1979 Nippon Kokan considered buying plants from Kaiser Steel, but backed out after deciding that the facilities were outdated. Last year the Japanese firm broke off negotiations to buy Ford's Rouge Steel unit, mainly because the United Auto Workers would not make wage concessions. This time Nippon Kokan did not insist on a new contract with National's steelworkers, though they make an average of $21 an hour in wages and benefits, compared with $11.60 an hour for their counterparts at the Japanese company...