Word: hourlies
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...proposition, and a boatload of other legal wrangles are looming. The first test began the very day that 2½ became law. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which serves 300,000 Boston-area commuters, was broke and needed $41 million to remain in operation. After a 26-hour shutdown, the state legislature voted to provide emergency funding and finance $23.5 million of it, with $10 million to come from MBTA revenues and $7.5 million to be paid by the 79 cities and towns served by the transit system. But Proposition 2½ forbids state agencies to increase assessments...
...soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket. Half an hour alone is wasted waiting in line for the obligatory shopping basket she must use for purchases. Always poorly stocked, the supermarket has been virtually stripped bare during the holiday season; even...
...auto workers' union members are requested to accept a two-year freeze on all cost of living increases and a slight reduction in fringe benefits. This would mean that a Chrysler worker would earn $17.31 an hour in 1981, rather than $20.45, and $17.52 an hour in 1982, rather than $22.11. The concessions would be worth approximately $600 million to the company. Iacocca last week bluntly told the United Auto Workers, "It's freeze time, boys. Chrysler's got good jobs available at $17.30 an hour. We don't have them...
...cheapness about the value of human life in our society that often shows itself in the way many folks treat handicapped people." These are sharp words, especially coming from a young woman who is a successful commercial artist, a bestselling author and the star of a two-hour, $2 million film version of her life that is being shown all over...
Herzog and Kennedy continued their negotiations for nearly half an hour, pausing to consult with a player's agent (a recent and much resented addition to such discussions) and to check minor-league scouting reports. Abruptly, the men exchanged handshakes, then departed to announce formally that Cubs Relief Ace Bruce Sutler had been sent to the Cardinals in exchange for Third Baseman Ken Reitz, second-year Outfielder Leon Durham and a St. Louis minor leaguer to be named later. That seemingly casual negotiation was symbolic of baseball's return to its old ways after five years of free...