Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sockol ended up mediating a personality conflict between the coach and the sponsor, who agreed to return. Sockol also helped heal a festering labor dispute at a local mill when he got union leaders to talk to management officials about who would pay the life-insurance benefit of a worker who died during the strike (they split it fifty-fifty, then settled their other differences as well). Herb Brown, the Atlantic City Press's Mr. Action, called in the city's most respected roofer to examine a shoddy roof job that a reader complained about, and found himself...
...months of hospitalization and round-the-clock nursing care at home, her medical bills have exceeded $300,000, but she could never collect a dime from the attaché. Two years later, a car driven by a Senegalese embassy chauffeur struck and killed a 19-year-old road worker in suburban Virginia. The embassy carried no liability insurance on the car, and the victim's family could not then bring suit for damages against the embassy's chauffeur...
...return to their homeland), or the Jews and Volga Germans (who wish to emigrate to Israel or Germany), do not pose an automatic ideological challenge--though when linked to the protest of intellectuals they can form a serious challenge. Perhaps most potentially disturbing is the emergence of a genuine workers' movement agitating for independent trade union activity with a potential mass appeal. This explains why the authorities have clamped down so heavily on Vladimir Klebanov and his numerically small group of worker dissidents...
...hoped they would see that I was a good worker and give me a job," said Opat. Despite his purely volunteer status, the plant's personnel department paid him $218 for his work and, according to Opat, promised him a job if he would keep his mouth shut. After two weeks without further word from the plant, Opat began talking to the press. "No comment," said a Ford spokesman to all inquiries. And so far, no job for Opat either...
...frustrating feeling shared by many Americans that their incomes are going up but their spending power is slipping got some additional statistical support last week. Take-home pay rose briskly in August, the Labor Department reported, and the average production worker with three dependents pocketed precisely $182.49, up 5.1% from a year ago. But inflation has made a mockery of the increase, and in fact Mr. Average is 2.5% poorer than he was last year and near ly 4.5% poorer than in 1972. Back then, his take-home pay of $121.68 was worth $96.80 in 1967 dollars. In those terms...