Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picketers, members of Service Employees International Union Local 285, work in lower-wage occupations on the clinic's non-medical support staff. They demanded a wage increase of 6 percent and a 30-minute reduction in their eight and one-half hour work day. Workers also picketed at HCHP's smaller Cambridge Center yesterday...
AUSTRALIA. This nation is suffering a bout of stagflation. Said Board Member Drysdale: "Policymakers are bewildered if not downright rattled by what is happening." Hefty wage demands by Australian workers have fueled inflation, now running at a rate of more than 11.5%. To trim costs, companies have slashed their payrolls, and unemployment has swelled to 7.8%, the highest level in half a century. To make matters worse, Australia's southern and eastern states are enduring their fiercest drought in 40 years...
Though industry executives and union leaders alike realize that high wages are hurting the industry, efforts to improve the situation have consistently failed. Last summer the 30-member executive board of the United Steelworkers of America took up the idea of a wage freeze to help stop mounting layoffs and return the industry to profitability. But the feisty leaders of the union's 600 local chapters rejected the proposal...
Last week U.S.W. President Lloyd McBride tried again, this time with an imaginative appeal not just for a wage freeze but for what would have amounted to an unprecedented pay and benefits cut of nearly 10% in the first year of a new multiyear contract. The deal would have required the U.S.W., in effect, to tear up its existing two-year-old contract, which does not formally expire until next August, and sign a new 45-month contract under which the steel companies would set up generous profit-sharing plans for U.S.W. members...
...hoped to revolutionize the way athletes are paid, the siege ended badly. "We are the game," the players proclaimed in September. Fifty-five percent of the gross was "etched in stone," until it became 50% of the television money. Finally, along with proposals for a salary fund and a wage scale, the percentage concept evaporated entirely. Owners will continue to pay their hired hands directly by individual bargaining, though they promised to spend a total of $1.6 billion over five years...