Word: waging
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Airline deregulation leads to brutal struggles over union wage rates...
...Vast wage differences exist between old and new carriers. Pay for a pilot on a unionized airline is roughly twice that on a nonunionized one ($85,000 vs. $45,000). The old carriers did not worry excessively about labor costs in the days of regulation because they could always pass along the higher union salaries in higher fares. But now, in an era of deregulation, an airline can set any price it wants, and the nonunionized carriers are offering inexpensive flights that are stealing business away from the unionized ones. Lately though, the older lines have been trying some unorthodox...
...Sept. 24, Continental Air Lines Chairman Frank Lorenzo, 43, attempted to reduce wage costs by temporarily going out of business. Lorenzo's plan was to close down the ninth largest U.S. airline and reopen a smaller carrier with lower labor costs, along the lines of the newcomers. Lorenzo claimed that Continental had been unable to win enough voluntary wage concessions from its unions...
...that mere number manipulation glosses over the problem. Most people register because they want to vote: they don't register if they don't want to vote or if they are given no reason to. The symposium could have made a constructive suggestion--calling on the government to wage the legal battles and the voter registration drives which are currently operating almost completely on a volunteer basis. (Boston's Operation Big Vote has worked so far on a budget of less than $8,000.) Instead they fiddled with procedure. It is ironic that in two days of talks...
Last week's march of resistance was one of a number of signs of unrest in Argentina. In recent weeks an estimated 2 million wage earners (out of a total of less than 10 million) have gone on strike. In part at least, all of them share the credo expressed by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo four years ago to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: "We have to understand the truth, otherwise a shadow of sadness will forever hang over the descendants of this shattered generation...