PCs but much earlier, computers have indeed been used as substitutes for low-skill clerical workers.

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The UAW event I recently spoke at celebrated the anniversary of the founding the union at Columbia University among clerical workers and others.

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Harpers and the New Yorker and Fox pay their postage, and, their clerical workers (unless those clerical workers happen to be your sorry Gen-Y intern-backside).

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Those in favor of a chained CPI argue that the current index, which considers the spending habits of urban wage earners and clerical workers, is outdated.

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The increase for a coming year is based on inflation between the third quarter of the prior year and the third quarter of the current year, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or CPI-W. In the third quarter of 2008 energy prices and the CPI-W spiked, giving beneficiaries a hefty 5.8 % COLA for 2009.

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On the lower rungs, adult women are still the majority of minimum wage earners and the majority of clerical support workers, and the pay gap between women and men working full time and year-round is just under 20%.

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Banks and public-sector employers find it difficult to recruit clerical and other lower-paid workers.

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Airport workers involved in the strike ballot include firemen, security guards, airfield marshallers, engineers and clerical staff.

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