Word: waging
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Sources close to the talks said the GM pact closely parallels the one that the U.A.W. and Ford reached in September. That contract gave Ford workers a 3% wage hike in the first year, along with 3% lump-sum payments in both the second and third years. Far more important to the U.A.W. was the issue of job security. The Ford deal imposed a moratorium on plant closings and barred layoffs for any reason other than a severe sales slump. From GM, the U.A.W. apparently received similar assurances about future employment levels, but in an important concession, the union will...
Depending on how much they were making before the strike, workers' raises under the new agreement will represent anywhere from a 5 to 11 percent increase in the wage pool, far short of the 13 percent the union was asking before the strike...
...state hearing will be held in January to investigate Cornell's use of funds in its labor relations, Valentovich said. She said union members are hoping the hearing will further their cause next spring when negotiations begin again for wage rates for the 1988 fiscal year...
...proposed three-year contract contains job-security provisions that will give workers unprecedented protection against layoffs. The pact, which is expected to be handily ratified by the U.A.W. rank and file, also includes improved pension and health benefits, along with a first-year 3% wage hike. (The base pay of the average Ford union worker is now $13.42 an hour.) In the second and third years of the contract, the employees would receive 3% bonus payments...
...really had to scrape hard to get some cash together for the trip home, and by the time I got back Stateside I was broke. For the first time in human memory the McDonald's down the street wasn't hiring fry-boys, so I took a minimum wage job working for the Michael Jackson International Corporation Amalgamated...