Workers sought a 20% rise and better conditions but later demanded a "double-digit" increase.
Workers, as one manager points out, often enjoy better conditions at work than at home.
So sustaining the recovery means taking advantage of better conditions to do some urgent repair work.
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However, Kufour's side insists that Ghanaians will enjoy better conditions when largely positive macro-economic indicators trickle down to them.
An EU ban on battery cages saw better conditions for egg-laying hens.
We won't know for some time whether this heralds better conditions for enterprise.
At May Day parades in Dhaka, marchers demanded the death penalty for the building's owner and better conditions for workers.
If anyone starts demanding more money or better conditions they can be fired and replaced with one of those unemployed.
Countries perceived to offer better conditions to asylum seekers, such as Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, have been moving to reduce differences.
The goal was a modernised fleet and air arm with complementary communications and tracking equipment, lower maintenance and better conditions for the crew.
Neither the Swedish government nor LO wants to restrict free movement of labour in the EU. But the unions want better conditions for pickers.
He said animal welfare officers "always come and check, and they say to me some of these animals are kept in better conditions than what they are in stables".
The war veterans also hope to undercut the trade unions by promising workers they can get raises and better conditions by appealing to them rather than to their unions.
Tournament officials are hoping for better conditions on Saturday which would allow the third-round leaders to complete nine holes before returning on Sunday morning ahead of their final rounds.
After all, just about every major electronics brand manufactures in China, and it is far from clear that if you buy a rival phone or tablet it will have been made under better conditions.
Once the spending creates better conditions, so the argument goes, the economy will be better positioned to withstand the spending cuts, tax hikes, and higher interest rates necessary to address the staggering deficits left behind.
On 1 January of that year, the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed and the National Zapatista Liberation Army -- made up of local indigenous people -- occupied four towns in Chiapas while calling for better conditions for indigenous people and the protection of communal lands.
And so one of the ways that they're trying to fight for better pay and better working conditions is to say, look, we want to be able to come together without being fearful of employer retaliation and organize to better our working conditions.
In short, better growing conditions are better for life on Earth.
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This requires both an increase in examination capacity achieved by increasing strategic hiring and creating better working conditions to decrease attrition, and improved efficiency achieved by streamlining the examination process and providing better tools and IT infrastructure.
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"I think I knuckle down and focus a lot better when conditions are tough, " Webb said.
For it is indeed that which will lead to those better working conditions that all desire.
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The intelligence assessment warns of major population shifts, as people seek better living conditions.
For Colombian businesses the renewed optimism and better economic conditions have come none too soon.
Women in the Dominican diaspora in the US, though, enjoy much better economic conditions.
To wish for still better market conditions in 2007 might smack of overdoing it.
The PMI reflects the percentage of purchasing managers who reported better business conditions than during the previous month.
In Indonesia, workers are increasingly staging strikes at shoe and apparel factories demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
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