Word: workweek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual vacationers were passengers who had locked up their office desks for the weekend, eaten hasty meals, packed their bags and hurried to make Flight 258 at its scheduled time. They had little time for delay; they were weekend aerial commuters, a modern phenomenon, traveling regularly from their workweek jobs in New York to their New England summer homes. Flight 258 wheeled northeasterly from La Guardia, headed toward Nantucket Island, only 68 air-minutes away...
...rise sharply, not only because the new plants built by industry are more efficient but because increased competition for jobs should make everyone work a little better. Moreover, as jobs grow scarcer, wages will flatten out. While the Autoworkers' Walter Reuther still talks of demanding a four-day workweek and other plums, wage demands will be tougher to win from management, whose bargaining position has been strengthened by the economic downturn and the scandals in labor's own house that have cost it heavily in public opinion. As a result, the new year may see some angry clashes...
Most unions fight moonlighting," fear that it will trip up the drive toward the shorter day or the four-day workweek. They argue that if workers simply use their extra days to take on a second major job, there will be no work-spreading effect to counter either automation or the flood of war babies expected to join the work force in a few years. Furthermore, moonlighting is a powerful argument in itself against the shorter week, and against short hours v. the acquisitive nature of man. At an A.F.L.-C.I.O. conference on the shorter workweek in Washington, George Brooks...
...delegates of the United Automobile Workers convening in Atlantic City last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) U.A.W. President Walter P. Reuther announced a new labor goal. Next year, he said, the U.A.W. will demand a "shorter workweek with increased take-home pay," leading as rapidly as possible to a four-day workweek for auto workers and for all of industry. The cost can easily be paid, said he, out of the "increased productivity of the tools of production...
...city room legman packs a batch of copy paper. "I'm not out to prove I'm superman but to show there's a need in radio and television for on-the-spot coverage." On call round the clock, he averages an 80-to go-hour workweek, has broadcast more than 2,500 on-the-spot news stories. One of the best: an eyewitness account of a 1955 Harlem gun battle between Manhattan cops and a cornered fugitive...