Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find that Ford has great benefits," he said. "We get medical benefits, sick leave, 11 paid holidays, and paid vacations." The vacation plan goes by seniority. It takes a year-and-a-half to build up two days vacation. Eventually, an auto worker gets four weeks off. It takes a while to get that much, but our man noted that "once you've put in a couple of years, the benefits jump very quickly." He was also on salary, and not a member...
...temperatures in the plant seemed a lot higher than 110, and one worker standing near the spectator's catwalk suggested that visitors touch the metal floor above one of the rollers to get an idea of how hot the place is. Most of the workers on the floor ignored the tour and went on working; one ate his lunch and worked at the same time, and the only woman we saw on the floor waved as she carried some fenders away from a machine...
...this" Nardelli was talking about was an envelope containing $150. As the district leader, Nardelli gives each worker between $25 and $150 for his efforts on primary pay depending on the relative importance of the job and the ability of the person...
...think if they could get together on their issues they could landslide everything in '76," said a 48-year-old blue-collar worker from the Redstone arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., who had his family of six seated in the front row at Point Mallard...
...Soviet leader talked of his youth and hard work. His father, a metallurgical worker, had always told him, he said, that they ought to build a huge monument on a mountain to the man who brought peace. Brezhnev the engineer seemed a man driven by his past to achieve something beyond just power and dominance. He wanted to build, and he wanted Richard Nixon around for the next summit and the one after that...