Word: workers
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...last year it was 6.6% v. 4.9%. Surprisingly, women's earnings have actually fallen farther behind the incomes of their husbands, brothers and male colleagues in the past 15 years or so. In 1956 the average full-time female employee earned 63.3% as much as the average male worker; in 1971 she grossed only 59.5% as much, or $5,593 a year.* The CEA suspects that this comparison is distorted by the fact that the normal work week is about 10% longer for men. Even adjusting for that difference, a woman's pay averages only...
Kaiser executives agreed to postpone the closing and adopt a few worker suggestions. A traveling saw that cut pipe into sections after it left the furnace was repaired and overhauled at a cost of only $3,000. Workers had been asking for the adjustments for years; once they were made, spoilage dropped from 29% of output to 9%. In addition, a few storage racks and inspection tables were rearranged to permit a smoother flow of work. Two crucial but low-paid employees who operated a pipe straightening machine were given raises from $3.70 to $4.07 an hour. And the workers...
Political language belongs to the Revolution, of course, and is of a wholly different type from bourgeois language. A worker can say "I cut down this tree"--between him and the tree there is only the change which his labor has caused. But the bourgeois, separated from direct action, speaks intransitively, of the world as it already is. His language is the breeding ground of myths, which by their very nature resist change...
Osmar Silva, 33, a construction worker, admits that "it's hard coming here every day. I get off work at 5:30 and have to be here at 6:30. We don't have any bathrooms we can use. But the teachers are interested in us, so it's worth it." Silva decided to come to Mobral because his seven-year-old can already read and write. "He's proud of me, and when he sees how hard I work, it encourages him to work hard...
Juan Corona's hands convulsively grabbed the defense table as he heard the jury's verdict on the first count: "Guilty." Then, for nearly half an hour, the ritual went on. The judge read out the name of a murdered farm worker, then intoned the jury's verdict: "Guilty of murder in the first degree." Each time -25 times, the number of victims in the worst series of murders in U.S. history the jury responded in unison: "Yes." At the sixth or seventh count. Corona's wife Gloria broke into sobs. When it was over...