wage increase
wage rise BrE , also: rise in wages

The local had asked for a 30 percent wage increase over three years.

Under the agreement, wages increase at the beginning of each year.

The final vote on the wage increase was 282 to 143.

They are also seeking a wage increase of 6 percent a year over two years.

He cited a 4 percent wage increase for many of the company's 40,000 workers.

The union is seeking a 9.5 percent wage increase for all its members.

The wage increase is one of this year's political surprises.

The union is seeking a 17 percent wage increase over two years.

It made 14 demands, including a 62.5 percent wage increase.

"We're looking for a wage increase in all three years," he said, but would not be more specific.

The House approved the wage increase by a vote of 281 to 144.

But what union would agree to put off wage increases without getting something in return?

The minimum wage increase was the first to be passed by Congress in 12 years.

That contract includes a 13 percent wage increase over four years.

"A minimum wage increase would help everybody, not just me."

The union eventually won a wage increase and kept much of its health benefits.

Perhaps some or all of the money saved would go to wage increases.

The proposed wage increase of 10 percent over three years remained the same.

In the last three years of the contract, workers would receive a 13 percent wage increase, the officials said.

But Liberty had offered only a 2.5 percent wage increase, union officials said.

The contracts give workers wage increases over the next three years of 10.5 percent.

In the South, particularly, the minimum wage increase has a wide effect - at least on paper.

The Paris subway workers want a 3.2 percent wage increase.

Poor leadership won lower wage increases than city workers got.

The city is negotiating with the police union over wage increases.

Last year, wages rose an average of about 3 percent.

Real wages rose by more than 10 percent last year.

Workers continue to see their wages rise as they age.

I work in the public sector and have been told no wage rise for at least two years.

Where do they think the money is going to come from to finance their wage rises?

But average hourly wages rose 4.1 percent over the last 12 months.

Wages rose 0.4 percent before taking into account the effect of rising prices.

By comparison, wages rose 3.3 percent for the year ended in March 1988.

If wages rise, it calls that into question, and they may have to hike a couple of times.

This is said to make wages rise and promote inflation.

When wages rise, rent must fall, in order for equation 2 to hold true.

Then, if her wage rose to $5, everyone would come out a little bit ahead.

Wage rises are a typical effect of inflation, not a cause.

But it also caused a deep recession as wages rose less quickly then prices.

During the same period, the resolution stated, factory wages rose just 22 percent.

Through the 90's, airline wages rose 43 percent, just slightly above inflation.

At that level, they argued, it was only a matter of time before wages rise and set off inflation throughout the economy.

Congress sets the credit for poor workers, and phases it out as wages rise.

But between 1951 and 1962 juvenile weekly wages rose by 83 per cent.

Wages rose, too, but not nearly as fast as home prices.

Their wages rose each year by about six cents an hour, or a little less than one percent, after accounting for inflation.

Real wages rose faster than inflation last year and unemployment remains low, at 4.6 percent.

Clinton is for the wage rise; Dole for the tax cut.

So faster wage rises were needed if the system was to function smoothly.

Their average wage rose 7 cents, to $16.41 an hour.