Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marking the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassinated Jepson Jackson will speak to Harvard students today at a rally protesting apartheid. Our moral opposition to apartheid certainly to must be reaffirmed in the wage of the bloodshed in South Africa of recent weeks. Yet, this rally bills itself as anti-apartheid and pick drives are thereby intimating that opposition is apartheid requires one to advocate divestiture. The issue of divestiture cannot be reduced to such simple moral equation...
...role will be not just to earn the trust of labor leaders, but to "create as many jobs as I can. That is the fundamental goal of this Administration." That apparently means Brock will follow the Administration line against closed-shop legislation and will push to abolish the minimum-wage requirement for teenage workers...
Workers have been stunned by Pan Am's actions. In the past four years, employees have helped save the airline by agreeing to wage cuts and other concessions worth $500 million. Arguing that it was high time for the carrier to restore those lost earnings, the T.W.U. pushed for an immediate 14% pay boost. Instead, the company offered a 20% raise over three years. Among the other proposals rejected by the union were sharp reductions in pension and health-care benefits...
...control future expenditures, the company wants a two-tier wage scale of the sort that is becoming an industry standard, under which new employees would be paid less than present workers. In addition, Pan Am wants the right to hire more foreign nationals for overseas flights. The unions see these & measures as a threat to job security for U.S.-based workers. Said Mary Annis Moore, a representative of the Independent Union of Flight Attendants: "What Pan Am is doing is anti-American...
...final decisions. One of these new programs, Lightyear ($495), automatically weighs the pros and cons involved in, say, choosing where a new plant should be built. The executive starts by listing the factors that will influence his decision: How high are local property taxes? What are the prevailing wage rates? After supplying the relevant data for each alternative building site, the executive simply hits a button and lets the computer come up with a recommendation. Naturally, the last word does not rest with the machine. The user is free at any time to adjust the criteria and watch how those...