Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late-week agreement between Labor Secretary George Shultz and a group of union leaders headed by James Rademacher, head of the National Association of Letter Carriers, promised a back-to-work movement in exchange for negotiations on a wage increase. Rademacher himself sent telegrams urging strikers to abide by the ageement. "Public wrath shall replace support" if workers stay out, he warned. "Reason must prevail." But the strikers hooted down their leaders. For them, money is the crucial issue. Embittered by what they consider their subsistence-level pay ($6,176 to start, $8,442 after 21 years), they resisted?...
...rewarding experience. It has taught me to appreciate just how vital Women's Lib really is if women are to take their rightful places in society as people, not as girls. But there seems little I can do about it. The struggle for liberation is one which women must wage for themselves, and men can only urge them...
...strike centers on the AFL-CIO National Letter Carriers Union's demand that the present annual wage for postal carriers be raised from a range...
...million to the welfare rolls without any real restrictions on eligibility, hiking federal welfare costs from $5.2 billion to $7.6 billion a year. So Mills amended the bill. It still guarantees a minimum income of $1,600 a year to a family of four, even if the family includes wage earners. But the bill now broadens the requirement that those receiving welfare must work if they can or accept job training if they are unemployable. Thus, if an unemployed father refused to accept suitable work or job training, his portion of the federal grant, $500, would be eliminated. The remaining...
...leaflet charged that "Hoheywell's recruiting reflects hiring and wage-level discrimination against women" because interviews for the management training program had been offered at Harvard, while computer programming interviews had been offered at Radeliffe...