If you're a friend to the working people of New York, and you're a friend to the labor movement, then raise the minimum wage.
Andrew Cuomo
Our problem has always been that when you set wage rates too high that we know some businesses won't offer experienced positions for people.
Duane Marsh
And that's the average worker. The reality is that while every commuter is experiencing a financial hardship with increases in gas prices, those individuals earning the minimum wage of $5.15 per hour are being the hardest hit, with a whopping 11.3% of their salary being pumped into their gas tank annually.
Bill Coleman
It's good to see the increase, but more needs to be done. The diminution of workers' rights, and the decline of their wage and living standards, has great consequences for everyone.
Larry Dorman
We were tipped off about this from a complainant who came in to file a wage claim, and said that a co-worker was injured, and he knew that they didn't have workers compensation.
Dean Fryer
The real goal is to attract business and create new high-wage, high-tech jobs here in the future. We want to ensure that people can live and work in the area.
Ted Astolfi
Young adults probably have the weakest connection to employer-based coverage. They're more likely to get jobs that are low wage, part time or with small businesses that can't offer insurance.
Sara Collins
Continued job and real wage growth is needed to increase a household's pool of cash and to strengthen discount retailers' sales, ... An improved labor market would make consumer spending more self-reinforcing and less dependent on tax and interest rate-related stimulus.
Carl Steidtmann
They just don't have the skills that companies that pay a good, sustaining wage are looking for to locate here.
Rosemary E. Wilde
Productivity always slows as the economy slows. If labor and wage costs are still on the rise and productivity slows, either corporate profits decline or prices increase.
Wayne Ayers
It is time to say good-bye to an initially intended transition to a more flexible collective bargaining system and a reduction of non-wage costs for employers.
Andreas Rees
These wage costs show that there are real wage increases going on in the community, but they are restrained and consistent with low inflation, provided the economy maintains productivity growth.
Peter Costello
We have got an agreement from the Water Authority that whatever steps have to be pulled out, those steps are going to be pulled out with a view to having your new wage levels or your new salary scales by May 1, 2006.
Sir Roy Trotman
The minimum wage initiative speaks to whether we value work. Raising Montana's minimum wage to $6.15 an hour will allow more workers to support their families, more families to make ends meet and more Montanans to go to work instead of going on welfare. That saves taxpayers money.
Jon Tester
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
Jon Corzine
While there is evidence that GDP growth has touched bottom, the recent tax increases on certain consumer goods, electricity and metro price hikes, more moderate real wage rises, and rising unemployment are probably going to impact consumption in 2002.
Damian Fraser
You have the third-fastest wage and salary gain in the nation over the past five years. As you know, the flip side of that is your housing costs are going up. Economics is not perfect.
Skip Rimer
We could have trade agreements that benefit working people. We could have universal health care. We could have a minimum wage that keeps up with inflation.
Melissa Fridlin
What we are seeing is an unraveling of the way we finance healthcare in the United States. It is coming apart at the edges, and those edges are small business and low-wage workers. The levees are breaking.
William Custer
When he follows the court's guidelines that dictate his behavior, he will find himself able to fulfill a handful of jobs, most of which will be manual labor. The first six months of his life will be spent trying to work for near minimum wage, spending half his free time answering questions from media outlets, book writers and more. Not a life I would enjoy.
Brian Martin
If it shows anything, it shows that for whatever reason, and perhaps part of it was the timing, was that officials were not just very successful in mobilizing voters. If you can't even mobilize your governor, then don't complain about the person barely making minimum wage who decides he's not going to leave work early and wait in line somewhere in order to go vote.
John Vile
The wage earner in the state of Michigan is going to have a hard road for the next five-10 years regardless of whether they're an autoworker or not. The bottom line is the worker on the assembly line or in the parts department with two homes, a boat and kids in college, those times are coming to an end.
Jim Mctevia
Compounding the problem by chasing higher inflation through higher wage demands would be the ultimate folly.
Danny Mccoy
Adding the Games may heat up the economy to the point where it runs up against shortages in materials or labor. The effect may be a higher cost of living across the province, cost over-runs on Games projects and intensifying price and wage pressures in coming years.
Derek Holt
The debt build-up isn't a problem for now but it will be when employment and wage growth eventually slows and the government is not cutting taxes and boosting spending.
Rossa White
But, as ever, with each minimum wage increase comes the predictable wave of protests from business saying that it cannot afford another rise.
Brendan Barber
The extent of the wage and benefit reductions Delphi is seeking would be difficult for any union to swallow easily.
Mark Oline
We have become weak as a union, giving in to a series of rollbacks and buy-outs at a time when the entertainment industry is recording record profits; profits that will continue to grow with new technology, ... If we truly expect to earn our livings as actors, we need to stand up and fight for a fair and livable wage.
Alan Rosenberg
I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.
James Collins
I think it's unconscionable in this time of prosperity for [real estate owners] to demand a wage freeze and cut into long-existing health care plans for the workers.
Matt Nerzig
Wage pressures seem to have subsided. However, ongoing solid growth and indications of price acceleration in certain segments of the economy could leave chief sleuth Greenspan with plenty of gum on his shoe.
Adam Blankman
We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.
Peter Dixon
It's not right. It's not fair. And it's offensive, ... who believed it was their religious duty to wage holy war against this country.
Marc Kasowitz
What we try to do is develop housing that the average wage-earner can reasonably afford.
Ann Murphy
[Yet this peppering of data notwithstanding, economists are not too sanguine about the immediate prospects for income growth on the bottom rungs of the wage scale.] The job market is slowly tightening, ... We are wringing out the slack. But we're only six months into a process that could take a year and a half.
Jared Bernstein
I have penciled in a bit of pickup in private consumption because of wage increases.
Dirk Schumacher
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot esta.
William J. H. Boetcker
Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the minimum wage and we feel ... that it will cause job losses in the state.
Gregg Thompson
This is a scary path for all Americans. Here is a government, a feckless federal government, who spent millions of taxpayer dollars to wage an assault on all our constitutional rights.
Pamelyn Ferdin
Now that the study has shed light on the staggering inequality faced by low-wage migrant workers, the national day-laborer community will renew its call for more worker centers, enforcement of labor laws, and realistic immigration reform which values the contributions of migrant workers. We call all responsible members of our society to support the day-worker community in these endeavors.
Pablo Alvarado
Coming into the study, we knew that the low-wage market is rife with violations of basic labor standards, but we still found the statistics shocking and disturbing.
Nik Theodore
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Jean Paul Sartre
With one of the lowest pay scales in California, officers are leaving San Diego and going to other cities where they can earn a fair wage.
Bill Nemec
But the contract stipulates that the workers must receive a daily wage of 3000 FCFA.
Faure Gnassingbe
In New Orleans, where a quarter of the city was poor, the prevailing wage for construction labor is about $9 per hour, according to the Department of Labor. In effect, President Bush is saying that people should be paid less than $9 an hour to rebuild their communities.
George Miller
That companies are making money and still can't pay a living wage seems obscene, ... (Corporations) will say they have to suppress wages to provide low-cost consumer products and services, but they don't tell you about the unbelievable profits they enjoy and the huge paychecks being reaped at the top.
Karen Nussbaum
The possibility is high that an improvement in labor and wage conditions will continue to support consumer spending going forward.
Taro Saito
Not many people want to come and work three jobs so they can ski one afternoon a week. A lot of the Mexicans aren't interested in skiing, they're just making a better wage than where they're coming from. At this point most resorts couldn't live without them.
Myles Rademan
Workers that make these clothes don't even earn a living wage. In Mexico, laborers often work for $4.50 a day, and even though the law prohibits their employers from forcing them to work more than eight hours per day, they are often forced to work 10 or 12 hours per day.
David Romero
The Janjaweed are like a grotesque mixture of the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan, ... These guys have a racist ideology that sees the Arab population as the supreme population that would like to see the subjugation of non-Arab peoples. They're criminal racketeers that have been supported very directly by the government to wage the war against the people of Darfur.
John Prendergast
President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
David Letterman
That's a fight we're going to have to wage forever. I just can't see that struggle ending because it's a trend that's affected the entire country. People believe what the party in control believes.
Sarah Brown
Almost 700 Local 150 members earned cost-of-living increases under these agreements because they are the most efficient, highly skilled workers in the industry. Rather than follow the lead of the rest of the industry, Levy insists on wage and benefits cuts.
David Fagan
The low jobless rate, the steady upward creep in wage increases and the solid employment gain will all help convince the Bank of Canada it is on the right path by continuing to tighten policy.
Doug Porter
It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last Central Labor Council meeting) someone reported that a union took a wage freeze but kept their health insurance. Today that's a win.
Dave Altman
Over the course of time, with real estate taxes that will come in, wage taxes, emergency services taxes and just the fact that people have better quality of life, it'll pay for itself tenfold.
Justin Taylor
I think (wages) will level off, but it will never be a minimum-wage market again.
Glen Helton
The gas exploration companies pay a very high wage. People who are underemployed today will change jobs. Then they will turn around and spend that money in the city and in the county. There will be an impact, but I don't think it will change minimum salaries because the local business are not going to be able to compete with what the gas companies pay.
Buck Layne
The Fed sees the possibility of labor markets becoming tight, which could push up costs at some point. At this point we haven't seen wage pressures but it's something the Fed is watching.
Glenn Haberbush
They can't survive for another year the way they're currently operating, ... They've got to get the unions to do it (grant wage concessions.)
Jim Corridore
It looks large relative to what happened in recent years, but you have to remember wage increases have been depressed for a long time.
Larry Chimerine
We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.
Dave Minshall
He has issued a bit of a caution flag now that he's on the lookout for wage pressures.
Roger Kubarych
Throughout these negotiations, we've been hearing from employees and their union representatives that ... they would prefer that we spend available money on retirement programs, incentives and lump sum cash payments rather than offering wage increases. With this offer, we are responding to that input.
Jerry Calhoun
The new rumor now since the meeting, since they did not act, is that the Fed could conduct an inter-meeting rate change, ... This is something they haven't done since April 1994, but people feel if the payroll report is strong and it's accompanied by a high wage gain, the Fed might move as early as tomorrow.
Tony Crescenzi
It's obvious that the U.S. economy is very strong and producing jobs at a very robust pace. Even with the relatively tame wage gains, the market is anticipating another interest rate increase from the Fed.
Rob Palombi
The contingencies set out in the budget could be used to accommodate increases in wage and salary levels.
Fitz Jackson
There is a definite need to increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was hoping the state would raise the wage to $7.15 right away, instead of waiting two years, that is my only criticism. This is definitely long overdue.
Paul Costa
Since Schwarzenegger was elected, the minimum wage has already lost 10 percent of its purchasing power.
Art Pulaski
Individuals are working in low-wage jobs and do not have benefits. It makes it very hard for them to support their families and leave poverty.
Roberta Gassman
Blame. That's what this case is about, ... The plaintiffs in this case want you to blame the Port Authority for the murderous acts of fanatical terrorists who planned and schemed for years ... who believed that it was their religious duty to wage a holy war against this country.
Marc Kasowitz
Growth was lower than expectations because of inventories -- which will need to be rebuilt -- while moderating employment costs will make it less costly for firms to hire additional workers. The still-strong level of wage and salary should buoy consumption.
Drew Matus
It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wage.
Jeff Collins
Reality speaks, and it says that, absent Hispanic workers, we could not process chicken. There aren't enough native American people who want to work in a chicken plant at any wage. We'd be put out of business.
Tom Hensley
How To Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You: Living a Life of Autonomy in a Wage-Slave Society ... sucking the vitality out of our lives, families and communities.
Claire Wolfe
We were disturbed by the incredibly high incidence of wage violations. We also found a very high level of injuries.
Nik Theodore
You need to do this if you want the region to have a real knowledge economy, which results in high-wage jobs. Or we will just have a service economy that depends on tourism.
Rob Melnick
To say $30 an hour is an unfair wage, I just can't see the logic in that.
Justin Phillips
I introduced a bill to create the minimum wage in Iowa when I was a freshman legislator. I set it at a buck an hour, and they called me a socialist for trying.
Mike Blouin
Having state-of-the-art training for our workforce will stimulate the creation of high-wage, high-skill jobs in what is regarded as a clean industry. It's definitely a win-win scenario.
Richard Snyder
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
Douglas Reed
Americans aren't going to take the jobs at the current wage and work conditions being offered.
Michele Waslin
Whether it is a business tax or a wage increase, the consumer ultimately pays for it.
Paul Bukowski
There's a documented need for low-cost subsidized housing for families in Iowa City. The hardship is greater on those families than it would be on a single individual. A family headed by a minimum-wage earner will pay 40 to 50 percent of their income on housing — versus someone who has a full scholarship that pays for most of their needs.
Jim Cain
Mandate has very grave doubts as to whether the social partnership process, with its current restrictive agenda and parameters can truly address the income needs of those on middle and lower incomes, given the very narrow focus on competitiveness and wage restraint being applied to the talks by both the government and employers in terms of wages in particular.
John Douglas
There is a crisis of labor rights in the state of New Jersey, and there is a crisis of people not getting paid, not getting overtime. Who knows how many thousands of dollars are robbed from their hands every day by these people, where, in many cases, they're not even getting minimum wage.
Mahonrry Hidalgo
If the ECB wanted to give a warning signal to trade unions on upcoming wage negotiations by increasing its interest rate, this was totally unnecessary. Trade unions in Europe already understand the need to have wage increases compatible with the objective of price stability.
John Monks
The attorney general has just reinforced what the mayor has been saying all along. That the state does not intend for the Marriott to be exempted from the city's living-wage ordinance.
Matt Hennessy
Our members, six to one, oppose establishing a state minimum wage. There are members who believe the market should determine the wages. And the market does a good job of it.
Michelle Bolton
We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minimum wage so that our lowest wage earners can retain their purchasing power.
Art Pulaski
Here is a government, a feckless federal government, who spent millions of taxpayer dollars to wage an assault on all our constitutional rights.
Pamelyn Ferdin
What we're trying to impress upon the company is they need to get on board. They need to give us wage increases, and they need to ensure job protection for our flight attendants here.
Mimi Rodriguez
Media reports and industry contacts continue to signal that the Delphi situation is likely to be resolved peacefully, with GM footing the bill for early retirements and wage subsidies.
Rob Hinchliffe
Strong new orders is a good sign for the region. The improving job situation means wage increases and that should support stronger consumption.
Tim Condon
He went down there to work because there's no work up here except for minimum wage. He was trying to better himself. I heard he was doing good and got an apartment with a friend. He was on his way.
Tim Watkins
We do have skilled people and they deserve an appropriate wage that reflects their skill level.
Bob Simpson
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.
Marcia Wallace
Globally, confidence is still positive but we can't expect sales to take off or spending to surge. What seems to be happening is that while the jobless rate is falling, people are seeing less salary rises as the 35-hour week brings wage moderation, so morale is not so good among consumers.
Dominique Barbet
The vast majority are high school students or college students, working part-time. So when you talk to businesses with full-time employees, most pay more than minimum wage. The data we have shows it generally takes three years before any effects show up in other states that have set a higher minimum wage.
Allen Douglas
The disparity between what people earn and what even modest rental housing costs grows larger each year. This is the housing market in which millions of low-wage workers and elderly or disabled people must try to find safe and decent homes.
Sheila Crowley
For when established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.
Erik Erikson, Dr.
Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
Mark Dayton
There are sectors of the world awash in money and venture capital, ... But if you are a woman with a minimum-wage job who has been catering birthday parties for supplemental income, the world is not awash in capital for you.
Bill Edwards
I strongly disagree with anyone who (takes) these numbers and says we should build a wall or not build a wall. I think the kind of immigration that hurts poor people the most is clearly not in the country's interest. We should have an immigration (policy) that attempts to equalize the wage gap, not make it worse.
George Borjas
We did wage a very effective campaign to put pressure on the ABI board to do the right thing ... These contests are won or lost by how many mistakes you make. We didn't make any mistakes.
Henry Silverman
We cannot ignore the market realities facing Delphi, which is unable to sustain wage and benefit levels above those paid by our U.S.-based competitors.
Claudia Baucus
[In addition, wage increases of between 3 percent and 4 percent have largely been agreed upon, though agreement on those issues could change in response to concessions on other concerns.] We have seen some positive movement on some of the issues, but this is a situation with a lot of moving parts, ... Those issues could change as we move to other issues.
Eric Rabe
It's hard to rely on promises when it comes to wage increase because we don't know what would happen to [the proposal] at the Senate.
Ernesto Herrera
There are going to be major demands for wage increases and thus causing further inflation.
Eric Bloch
Since the Palestinians are beginning to wage something that approximates a guerrilla war, our helicopter attack was a signal that if there is one, we have the answer to it.
Ephraim Sneh
While the government deprives workers of wage hikes, it condones the weekly oil price hikes imposed by the Big Three and new oil players. How can the government expect workers to cope with the high cost of petroleum and its domino effect on prices of other basic goods and services?
Elmer Labog
On Labor Day, the legislated wage hike would again be one of the major issues we will push. We've been asking for it for long a time. It's long overdue.
Elmer Labog
We are moving into that phase where we expect that wage growth will catch up and take productivity over.
Edward Lazear
If you look at the housing market and say, are housing prices going up where job growth is high, where wage growth is high, where demographic movement brings people into the housing market? All of those things seem to be true.
Edward Lazear
We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.
Edward Lazear
I think everybody is waiting for the employment data. If unemployment is still dropping when we've just had a report showing productivity is declining, then the Fed would be really concerned about wage inflation. That would mean we would be more likely to see more than one or two rate hikes.
Fred Peters
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