Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What I am doing is joining with Jane Fonda in speaking to women office-worker groups in Boston...
...when it comes to paying employees, Harvard's salaries can't match a manufacturer's. Barbara Wickenden, personnel officer at the Education School, says the most frequent worker's complaint is about salary. "We cannot compete one-to-one with industry," she says...
...nimble-fingered girls who are under 14. Many have lost fingers as a result of accidents at work. In many of the carpet mills of Morocco, female "apprentices" under 13 work for no wages on the ground that they are getting free training. Since Moroccan law stipulates that any worker 13 or over must be salaried as an adult, the carpet industry usually fires its children when they become teenagers and replaces them with younger girls...
When the California court was ruling on the Egan case, Lawyer Shernoff was off in Mississippi instructing another jury in what he calls "the therapeutic concept of punitive damages." His client this tune was Wilfred Fayard, 58, a sheet metal worker, who had suffered a back injury while carrying a bathtub. Fayard lost his disability benefits because his injury was considered by his insurance company to be "nonconfining." That was because Fayard, on doctor's orders, managed to walk a few hundred yards every day for exercise. At the trial, a former claims adjuster for Fayard's insurers...
...that realm; they have sold some 9 million albums and made songs like Macho Man, Y.M.C.A. and In the Navy into nocturnal national anthems. Now the beat goes on, for a onetime back-up singer named Ray Simpson has been promoted to the group, joining Cowboy Randy Jones, Construction Worker David Hodo, Indian Felipe Rose, Motorcyclist Glenn Hughes and G.I. Alex Briley. Simpson came along in perfect 4/4 time: shooting has just begun on the People's first film, You Can't Stop the Music, co-starring Bruce Jenner and Valerie Perrine. Harmony, disco style, reigns again...