Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unit labor costs in manufacturing, which had risen 45% over the previous two years, increased even further because of automatic cost-of-living increases and social security obligations that have skyrocketed to 100% of a worker's basic salary. These gains, negotiated by militant trade unions, fail to touch a booming black-market labor force of some 8 million who work for low pay and no fringe benefits...
...with a heavy belt buckle. Attacks against teachers seem to be increasing faster than student v. student assaults. In one incident last November, a woman math teacher in a New Haven junior high accosted a 14-year-old girl in the cafeteria line after the student insulted a cafeteria worker. The girl wheeled round, flung her tray of hot soup and mashed potatoes into the teacher's face and began to punch...
...close friends in Washington and never takes a vacation. Says he: "I wouldn't enjoy going away and doing nothing." His scant leisure time is spent with his wife, watching TV news and interview programs. Erma, also an energetic worker, enjoys visiting their two married daughters in the Washington area and fussing over her six grandchildren...
...they are wrong. In 1971, (more recent figures are not available, but wage differentials don't change fast), the average woman clerical worker's salary was 62 per cent of the average man's--lower than the 68 per cent figure of nine years earlier. And the old image of the young, unmarried, female office workers is way out of date. By 1960, the median age of women clerical workers was 35, and more than half were married...
Take Bea Leaguered, for example, a mild-mannered office worker and the heroine of a skit put on by "The 9to5 Players" at a fund-raiser in Boston last week. She is oppressed again and again by wicked bosses. One day her friends take pity on her and present her with a membership in 9to5. Phoenix-like, she rises up out of the typing pool to defeat one discriminatory employer after another--Macho Mutual Insurance Company, Arrogant Women-Proof Publishers, First Bigoted Bank of Boston, Neanderthal University. Will the work of the noble Ms. Leaguered ever be done...