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...printers from locals 300 and 16 are striking for a wage hike of at least 5.9 per cent plus a $10 per week across-the-board increase...
Daughty said that the typesetters are demanding a larger wage hike than the 5.9-per-cent increase plus $10 a week sought by the printers...
...bread. At the gates of Annenberg's 220-acre estate in Palm Springs, Calif, were 15 noisy pickets throwing beer cans into the shrubbery and indulging in a few well-chosen oaths. The greensmen hired to tend Annenberg's 18-hole golf course were demanding a pay hike. Annenberg took them to court for violating his right to privacy. Last week the California appellate court reversed a trial court's decision for Annenberg in favor of an appeal by the AFL-CIO, which claimed that domestic employees have the right to strike. The court found that Annenberg...
...salary then became an issue with which Danehy sharpened his attack on the council coalition. One the same March evening when the council voted to appoint James Sullivan city manager, the council raised the manager's annual pay from $34,000 to $45,000. Danehy called the pay hike "the most brazen political act ever taken in this city," and charged that the coalition raised the manager's salary prior to John Corcoran's April 1 retirement in order to increase Corcoran's pension...
...early 1972, however, AMPI executives were having second thoughts about their generosity to Nixon's campaign. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader had brought suit in Federal District Court in Washington that January, contending that the hike in milk-price supports had been illegal. A week later, the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit in Federal District Court in Kansas City, Mo., charging the cooperative with unfair trade practices, including price fixing. Upset by the course of their political activities and the resulting publicity of both suits, the AMPI asked Nelson to resign as general manager...