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...began in August 1981; although eleven of the 13 unions agreed on the terms, the talks broke down last July. Reagan invoked a 60-day cooling-off period and appointed a panel to make recommendations. In August the board suggested that the two holdout unions accept the 28.8% wage hike over 39 months already agreed to by the other unions, along with a no-strike pledge. The twelfth union holdout relented, but the engineers continued to balk at the lack of a guaranteed wage differential. When the cooling-off period ended on Sept. 19, the engineers walked...
...three-point hike became news, the New York Times's front-page article described the figures in passing as a significant "indicator of the quality of public education." In so doing, they surpassed any previous claims the test's proponents have made. If the College Board has insisted on one qualification when publicizing the test that pays its rent, it is the warning not to evaluate schools or school systems on how well its students score...
With the way things look at the Quad Recreational Athletic Center (Q-Rac) these days, it's easy to see why officials are telling Quad residents to take a hike if they want to work up a sweat...
Last winter, HRE asked the rent board for a rent increase to cover the cost of installing energy saving windows in the apartments. Many of the tenants objected to the rent hike, charging that the new windows were unnecessary and overpriced...
...corporate counsel. "If GM gets hit with a $1 million claim, it raises the price of its cars. When the city gets hit with $1 million, it lays off ten policemen. The people are going to lose." Some municipalities, especially small ones, have to raise taxes. Troy intends to hike property taxes an average of $200 per household. Concedes Steven Berry, the winning lawyer in the Troy suit: "Citizens can end up footing the bill for mistakes by people they have either elected or hired to act competently. There is a problem there...