Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identified himself as Roger Ferretti telephoned Scranton police to report that he had just killed a woman-and the call was routinely recorded. The cops located Ferretti, who denied killing the woman or making the call. Two days later police arrested Adam Topa, now 56, a factory worker who knew Ferretti and had been out drinking with the victim the night of the murder. The evidence against Topa was strong but largely circumstantial: bits of wool found on his bloodstained jacket matched the woman's coat. The most striking evidence came from a sound spectrograph, a machine that reduces...
SICK PAY loses its role as "the workingman's tax shelter." Previously, a worker owed no tax on as much as $100 a week-$5,200 a year-of money that he received while he was absent from the job because of injury or illness. Now, such pay is taxed as heavily as the income a worker earns when he is healthy. The only exception is payments to people under 65 who are totally and permanently disabled-and in some cases even they may not qualify. Making matters worse, many employers did not withhold tax from paychecks mailed...
...Archie Stokes live on a road that "has been ready for blacktop for two years." Archie moved that $5,000 be allotted for blacktopping this year. The motion was voted down when it was explained that $5,000 would pave only about 150 ft. Mac Moody, an elderly town worker, hiked his leather hat back on his head and complained that "the state just don't want to spend money on little roads." Then he strode outside...
Equally serious, the British Leyland workers are failing to measure up to guidelines for productivity increases that have been set by the government as a prerequisite for additional investment in British Leyland. In general the productivity of European workers is substantially lower than that of their U.S. counterparts at the workbench or assembly line. Though European growth rates in output per man-hour are often increasing at a faster rate than those in the U.S., Europe's best worker, who happens to be French, produces only 80.6% as much as a U.S. worker. The British worker, who is Europe...
...vastly undervalued. To assemble her disquieting portrait of the work life of the average woman, Howe interviewed scores of women, met with unions and management and even took a job as a sales clerk. The vast majority of women, she writes, are in "pink collar" occupations: beautician, office worker, sales clerk, waitress. Among the problems contributing to their generally low wages: too many applicants and not enough jobs, indifferent unions, and company policy predicated on "A and P" (attrition and pregnancy) to hold down the office payroll. Wherever she can, Howe skillfully animates dry statistics with the experiences of women...