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...jobs. So the labor leaders are pushing a few alternatives to the Reagan spending cuts. They would prefer to lower federal budget deficits by reducing interest rates through selective credit controls and reduce unemployment through direct jobs programs. They are flatly opposed to such pet Republican proposals as a subminimum wage for teen-agers and the dismantling of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In addition, the union believes that individual tax cuts should be focused on middle-and lower-income groups through a 20% reduction in Social Security taxes...
...workers who produced McDonald's secret weapon, the 50-second burger, receive their share of the benefits. McDonald's has lobbied for years for a subminimum wage for the teenage workers who form the majority of its employees. And even some famous universities could take a lesson from McDonald's union-busting methods. Claiming no "outsider" (read: union) is needed to resolve labor-management conflicts, managers hold "rap sessions" with employees, ostensibly to understand their grievances. Actually, Hamburger Central directs managers to heed complaints only as a clue to which employees have unionizing sympathies. Tricky lie detector tests await...