Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When contracts expired in January, hourly paid workers earned $3.70 per hour, up from $2.00 in 1970-- an 85 per cent increase. But consumer prices shot up 71 per cent in the same period so farm workers earned only 13 cents more per hour in 1979, adjusted for inflation, than they earned nine years earlier. Workers who labor on the piece rate this year--like lettuce harvesters--took in 6 cents less per box, adjusted for inflation, than they earned nine years ago. Growers paid only 6 1/2 cents per hour into the union's family health plan--about...
...charged 28 growers with refusing to bargain in good faith). The employers hired slick public relations men (who ran the Reagan and Ford campaigns) to improve their public image. A favorite public relations tactic is placing deceptive full page ads in major newspapers portraying growers as advocates for farm worker human rights and the union as a threat to worker liberty. These are the same human rights advocates who opposed toilets in the fields and abolition of the short-handled hoe, and fired thousands of workers for wearing union buttons and backing the UFW. Growers then mobilized well-heeled, professional...
...addition, the government should follow the United Auto Worker's lead and put a public representative on Chrysler's board of directors, providing access to Chrysler's financial operations and giving the public a voice in its investment decisions...
Letter Writer William N. Thompson [Oct. 15] says, quite insultingly, that "a healthy [worker] voluntarily living on a pension financed for the most part by today's productive workers is living on welfare ... If a person freely chooses leisure, he should not expect the productive working force to pay for it." I am going to voluntarily choose leisure next spring because there are other things I want to do, but it will be paid for by my money, the Social Security salary deductions I have been paying since the program started in the 1930s. How dare...
...employees will be phased out), the right to introduce some laborsaving new technology, and a promised end to unauthorized work stoppages. Production was interrupted 74 times in 1978 alone, costing the papers $5.6 million. In return, the unions were given generous severance payments (an average of $26,000 per worker), better wages (up between 20% and 45% over two years), an extra week's vacation (for a total of six) and substantially improved pension and sick-pay formulas...