Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to union officials, the food service workers have asked Harvard for an across the board wage hike, free medical insurance, as well as several "worker dignity clauses--including a ban on potential subcontracting of food services...
...wage rates overseas are part of the reason for the surge in imports. Average labor costs are $1.53 an hour in South Korea and $1.43 in Taiwan, in contrast
...inclined to support the workers' demands. Powers himself has reportedly suggested that he couldn't support his family on a Harvard dining hall worker's income. Harvard should award wage increases not based on market forces but on the needs of its employees. The workers' "dignity" demands also merit support: in a time of high unemployment, workers need Harvard to make a binding legal commitment to the University's current discretionary policy of providing alternative jobs when it claimants their positions. In a border sense, the hard-working dining hall personnel deserve both the feeling and the reality of greater...
...attempting to enlist community, faculty and student support--and by involving rank and file workers in collective bargaining--Bozzotto and his union have displayed a creative and democratic approach to the problem of maintaining workers' incomes and employment in a time of layoffs and labour wage concessions. They have chosen to go down a rather risky road in presenting Harvard--an employer that has easy recourse to non-union help--with such a militantly determined bargaining stance. The threat of a strike, and the attendant possibility that the University might call in non-union workers, make student support...
...paper's six unions have agreed to a wage freeze until July 1984, a subsequent 6% cap on annual raises through mid-1988 and reduction of the total staff from 950 to 910, mostly through attrition. But to return the paper to profitability, Maynard says, he must boost classified advertising, take advantage of the renaissance of Oakland's business district and fatten circulation in the city's affluent white suburbs, which supply 142,000 readers to the cross-bay San Francisco papers, the Chronicle and the Examiner...