Word: white-collar
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Even today, many U.S. workers lag behind their European counterparts in vacation time. In West Germany, for ex ample, blue-collar workers get 31 weeks off, white-collar workers a month; some government employees are entitled to as much as six weeks of holiday time. The prime force in lengthening West German vacations has been the unions, which have given vacations equal priority with wages, pensions and fringe benefits...
...problem is faced by blue-collar and white-collar workers alike. One concerned group, for instance, is the 125,000-member Council of Engineers and Scientists, whose membership has been hard hit by mass layoffs in the aerospace industry. This week, as vacationing Congressmen meet their constituents, pensions will undoubtedly register high among the topics of voter concern. New York Senator Jacob Javits reports that his mail on the subject runs second only to Viet...
...workers choose to exercise their freedom is an intriguing study in psychology. White-collar workers tend to punch in late and work late; factory men usually come early and leave early. The experiment has attracted the attention of the German government, which allows most of the 1,000 employees of the Transport Ministry to arrive and leave within two-hour margins. The Bonn Cabinet will review results and decide whether to extend staggered working hours throughout the government. Unions are paying attention too. They are asking for a 2% raise for workers on staggered hours, arguing that it is justifiable...
...this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...
After a costly ten-week strike last fall, the United Auto Workers won an immediate 13% wage increase from General Motors and then turned on Chrysler, which yielded similar raises, including a 13% pay boost for several thousand white-collar workers...