Word: underpay
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...industrial" agents walked out in the first major strike of U.S. insurance agents and the biggest "whitecollar" strike in U.S. labor history. The strikers, whose work included selling and collecting premiums on industrial policies (i.e., insurance paid for in small weekly or monthly installments), complained of overwork and underpay. During the strike, they threw as many as 1,000 pickets around the company's Newark (N.J.) headquarters...