wage floors造句

• Global competition and lower overseas wages, de-unionization of the U . S . work force, technology-aided productivity improvements, a stagnant minimum wage floor, greater use of temporary and contract workers, and the higher costs of health-care coverage for individuals have all contributed to the downward pressure on pay.
• "The Harvard community has come out by the thousands, demanding a simple policy : a permanent wage floor so that when the TV cameras go away, there's a floor that guides negotiations, " said Aaron Bartley, a former law student who spent 21 days in Massachusetts Hall and now represents 800 university janitors in Local 245 of the Service Employees International Union.
• From Acting Governor Paul Cellucci, a recent convert to the idea of raising the wage floor, to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Paula Rayman, director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, to a grocery-store worker and a laundry employee struggling along on the minimum wage, their views were unanimous : Only good come could of hiking the minimum wage, whether at the state level or federally, they said.