Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chrysler contract includes a full "30 and out" clause: A worker may retire after 30 years with the company at any age and he will receive full pensions benefits. Although the union was asking for an increase in pensions to $650 a month, the contract sets benefits at $550. But it insures that retired workers will continue to collect that full sum even after they begin receiving social security benefits. By 1978, the average 65-year-old retired worker's monthly benefits will thus total about...
Under the old contract a worker could retire after 30 year of service with full pension benefits only if he had reached the age of 56. Full pension was $500 a month. But the employee suffered a reduction in benefits once he became eligible for and began receiving social security checks...
Still, Allende had plenty of admirers. Some were not even socialists, but sympathetic liberals who hoped that he could succeed in bridging the gulf between the poor and the wealthy. The poor, peasant and worker alike, idolized him. "I would be a hypocrite if I were to say that I am President of all Chileans," he once observed. They listened in awe as "Chicho" addressed them...
...song was the tipoff. As United Auto Workers negotiators left the Chrysler bargaining suite late last week and trooped into the press room, some started belting out Solidarity Forever, the old union strike song. Looking grim and tired, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock revealed the bad news. Contrary to all earlier predictions, the union was striking Chrysler Corp., the nation's third-largest auto manufacturer. This year's bargaining sessions were the "most complex" in the union's history, Woodcock said, forcing negotiators to cope not only with basic pay demands but also with such nonmoney issues...
...effect, on balance, is that of a cinematic intelligence ruled by an ideology so vague that it lets us grow as fascinated with the process of production as with the experience of the individual worker. We learn that there is craftsmanship as well as tedium on the assembly line. We come away with a sense of the immediacy of the jobs themselves that opens up a large ideological space between shots that mock Pompidou visiting an auto show and those that cannot help but celebrate the flow of enameled bodies or a welder's master touch...