Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic industry still leads its major foreign competitors in productivity. In fact, it is doing considerably better than European rivals, who also suffer from aged plants and surging costs. But the Japanese are rapidly gaining in the productivity race. They earn less but produce almost as much steel per worker as their American competitors. Over the past decade, productivity growth in the domestic industry has declined from 3% a year to 2%, while wages and benefits have risen from $5.38 to $16.53 for hourly workers, making the 455,000 U.S.W. members among the best-rewarded in the nation...
...What letter of the alphabet am I thinking of?" he asks a skeptical construction worker...
...Gerstenblatts entered the cookie business in 1973 when they moved to California in search of more interesting jobs. Trained as a social worker and possessed of a degree it took him ten years to earn, Sid resembles everybody's Jewish grandfather, with his shock of white hair, and grey eyes framed by sensible glasses, except for the "groovyisms" of this year and last with which he sprinkles his speech. He designed a non-profit dental program in Vermont and health center in Rhode Island while his wife worked as a nurse and a consultant...
Small-scale capitalism still has its contradictions for this social worker-cum-entrepreneur and his Berkeley graduate son. His face animated, Sid says he feels "caught between what I want in life and what I need, and what I want to do for others. I'd like to be involved in a social cause, I'd like to make sure that the needs of the elderly get taken care of. I'd like to work to change the system, but I'd be knowing all the while that it's virtually impossible to change...
...think it's terrible. A man holds a permanent position for 12 years and then he has to go back to where he started--switching from hall to hall," a Winthrop House worker, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday...