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- Major Collective Bargaining Agreements--Average Percent Effective Wage Adjustments: 1975 - 1989[In percent, except as indicated.]Adjustments 1975 1980 1985 1987 1988 1989
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- Total effective adjustments(1)
- (prorated over all workers) 8.7 9.9 3.3 3.1 2.6 3.2
- Source:
- Current settlements 2.8 3.6 .7 .7 .7 1.2
- Prior agreements 3.7 3.5 1.8 1.8 1.3 1.3
- COLA 2.2 2.8 .7 .5 .6 .7
- Industry:
- Manufacturing 8.5 10.2 2.8 3.4 2.8 3.5
- Nonmanufacturing 8.9 9.7 3.6 2.9 2.5 3.0
- Construction 8.1 9.9 3.0 3.1 2.9 3.1
- Transportation & public
- utilities 9.7 10.8 3.6 2.7 2.1 2.3
- Wholesale & retail trade 9.2 7.6 3.3 2.0 2.3 3.2
- Services 6.4 8.1 5.1 3.8 3.5 5.3
- Nonmanufacturing, excluding
- construction 9.3 9.6 3.7 2.8 2.4 3.0
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- Effective wage change for
- workers receiving change (NA) (NA) 4.1 3.6 3.3 4.0
- Source:
- Current settlements (NA) (NA) 3.4 2.9 3.1 4.2
- Prior agreements (NA) (NA) 3.7 3.3 3.0 3.4
- COLA (NA) (NA) 2.2 2.6 2.7 3.3
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- Total number of workers
- receiving wage change(mil.) (NA) (NA) 5.6 5.4 4.7 4.8
- Source:
- Current settlements (NA) (NA) 1.4 1.6 1.4 1.7
- Prior agreements (NA) (NA) 3.4 3.5 2.6 2.3
- COLA (NA) (NA) 2.3 1.3 1.3 1.3
- Number of workers not
- receiving wage change(mil.) (NA) (NA) 1.4 1.0 1.3 1.2
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- NA=Not available.
- 1. Represents all wage adjustments implemented under the terms of
- private nonfarm industry agreements affecting 1,000 workers or
- more, covering production and related workers in manufacturing
- and nonsupervisory workers in nonmanufacturing industries.
- Effective wage adjustment measures all wage changes effective
- in the year stemming from settlements reached in that year,
- deferred from prior year agreements, and cost-of-living
- adjustment (COLA) clauses.
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- Source:U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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