Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Europeans are not always very pleasant to us," says one East German worker. "We took a three-day trip into Poland recently, but we really would have preferred to be in East Germany...
Conducted by Drs. J.A.N. Corsellis and C. J. Bruton with the assistance of a psychiatric social worker named Dorothy Freeman-Browne, the study is not the first attempt to understand why boxers become punchy. But it is the most extensive. Most previous efforts have concentrated on only one or two fighters...
...scorned all the actions of the people one of his poems denounced, with passion and accuracy, as the dictatorship of the flies. Neruda never claimed to inhabit a special world for poets divorced from the struggles and the suffering of ordinary people. The son of a railway worker killed in a fall from his train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda to run for the Chilean Senate, where he served for four years...
...Workers will receive a three a per cent wage increase in each of the three years covered by the new contract, plus an additional 12 cents an hour in the first year. The contract also includes a new cost-of-living "escalator," a formula pioneered by the auto industry and based on the Consumer Price Index. During the most recent quarterly period, a worker received more than $20 a week over and above his base wage to compensate for the cost-of-living increase. Under the new formula, based on the same inflation conditions, this figure would rise...
...when Ronald Tucker, a young black worker at the Hamtramck plant declared that he wanted to "tell the world that they're [the union] selling us [the workers] down the river," several older picketers turned to each other and laughingly noted that "he's only been here [at the plant] four months...