Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food service workers' three-year-contract with the University will expire June 19. The union has asked Harvard for a dollar-an-hour, across-the-board wage hike and free medical insurance for workers. Local 26 has introduced a set of "worker dignity" proposals such as a ban on possible subcontracting of food services...
...contract includes concessions by Caterpillar (1982 sales: $6.5 billion) as well as by the strike-weary workers, who voted 2 to 1 to accept it even after union leaders had recommended its rejection. While the company won its demand for a 37-month wage freeze, it also agreed to some pay increases. These include Caterpillar's first profit-sharing bonuses, which will bring the average worker a total of $558 in cash or company stock by 1985, plus quarterly cost of living adjustments. The hourly pay of union members consisted typically of $12.80 in wages and $6.74 in benefits...
Caterpillar executives hope the wage freeze will help to revive profits. The ailing maker of earthmoving and construction equipment was $180 million in the red last year, its first yearly loss since 1932. It lost $172 million more in this year's first quarter. The firm laid off some 20,000 workers during 1982 in addition to the 20,400 strikers, and has slashed its capital spending and research budgets. "Cost containment is vital," says Chairman Lee Morgan, 63. "We will have to scratch still harder for business and manage more effectively...
...academic study, published in the California Law Review, finds that this pay inequity constitutes evidence of illegal sex-based wage discrimination...
...food service workers union has asked the University for an across-the-board dollar-on-hour wage hike and free medical insurance, as well as seniority-based promotions and a ban on subcontracting food service operations to outside catering agencies. The University has not yet released its proposals for contract changes...