Many colleges use part-time lecturers who get paid much less and rarely get raises.
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That means that a bit of extra negotiation right now will compound as you get raises in the coming years.
Even if Congress goes along with the freeze, perhaps 60% of those 2 million workers will get raises each year anyway.
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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.
The virtue of this plan is that it would be similar to the treatment of COLAS In private industry: workers whose wages are indexed to inflation generally get raises equal to only a portion of the CPI increase.
But most of them would still get routine raises under the COLA freeze proposal.
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Start with a smaller percentage and bump up your contributions when you get bonuses or raises.
Another way is to push any raises you get straight into your retirement plan.
If you want to keep getting raises, get promoted to senior management.
There are many fascinating aspects to the tale, which has just taken a new turn with a report in the Wall Street Journal that the automaker will be giving Chinese workers significant raises to get them back to work.
The company should get some respite once it raises its prices, which could be as early as in the summer of 2013.
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We asked one successful entrepreneur, Victoria Pynchon, co-founder of She Negotiates Consulting, which helps women get better at asking for raises and promotions.
While waiting for the egg timer or the microwave heating your oatmeal to go off, use the kitchen counter for support, and get going with 20 calf raises and 20 lunges and 20 counter push-ups.
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Ask for raises, confident people get them more often than high performers in a heavy bureaucracy.
If the conversation is going well, you could remind them that if you get a good price, that raises the value of other homes in the neighborhood, including theirs if they are owners.
It raises the probability that Russia will get its economy moving this year or next--and with that, cast off some of the confusion and self-pity that have lately made it so difficult a partner for both America and Europe.
But it all raises a critical question we need to get better at answering: When does media matter most and in what ways?
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It raises the adrenaline, it makes you get your canvassing kit out and start to think of how best to set about trying to hold on to your seat.
Many workers haven't gotten cost-of-living raises for a few years, although some get pay boosts linked to longevity or new credentials.
Many workers haven't gotten cost-of-living raises since the contracts lapsed, although some get increases linked to longevity or acquiring new credentials.
This raises questions to which the public ought to get answers.
For if car companies now must offer you guaranteed access to other vehicles to get you to buy an all-electric one, it raises the question: Why do you need an electric vehicle in the first place?
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Although Mr Clinton and congressional leaders have reached agreement on a formula to pay off most of the arrears in stages (and may even get a bill to that effect through Congress), this in itself raises hackles.
For Prof Miles, this raises an obvious question: what, exactly, do we get out of a "helicopter drop" - or the bank just extinguishing all the gilts it has bought - which we do not get out of the policy we have now?
It raises a question: was the path that Mr Koizumi chose to get Japan out of the economic swamp misguided, at least in part?
Which raises the question: Why does the Securities and Exchange Commission let Dennis get away with this?
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Which raises the question: why did these large corporations invest and what did they get for their money?
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This raises the obvious question: How can we ensure that Wall Street doesn't get carried away as it did before the 2008 meltdown?
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But it raises some questions about the wineries that use his services: Are they making wines purely to get good reviews for the sake of driving sales?
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