Detractors, of course, rail against the allegedly low wages and benefits it offers employees.
In order to keep employees happy, we need to offer competitive wages and benefits.
In fact, public employees had already agreed to sharp cuts in wages and benefits.
From a tax standpoint, employer spending on wages and benefits is the same.
But who will pay for those new jobs and increases in wages and benefits without swelling the public deficit?
To survive in the eurozone these mainly southern European countries are being told to regain competitiveness by cutting wages and benefits.
There is a very real danger that the Italians - like the Greeks - will resist cuts in wages and benefits.
Wages and benefits are forced to rise when there is competition to higher people as a simple supply and demand equation.
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Americans know unions promise higher wages and benefits and more job security.
Elysian employees are paid competitive wages and benefits, says an Elysian spokeswoman.
The 22.5-million-strong public sector (that includes retirees) is growing ever larger, and enjoying ever greater wages and benefits often guaranteed by state constitutions.
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No way, cried the flight attendants union, which was in the process of persuading 420 members to accept deep cuts in wages and benefits.
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In Mr Dray's view it has become a conservative, even reactionary, force that struggles to safeguard jobs, wages and benefits, not to improve them.
This is partly down to the increasing role of women in the workforce, as declining wages and benefits force families to rely on two incomes.
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Using the bankruptcy law to threaten rejection of its labor contracts, United forced the unions in 2003 to accept large cuts in wages and benefits.
My own view is that if unions did less protection of mediocrity and more protection of wages and benefits, their general image would improve drastically.
He is especially proud that he won his members by far the most generous wages and benefits that prison officers get anywhere in the country.
It came as hundreds of garment workers who survived the collapse protested by blocking a highway close to the accident site demanding unpaid wages and benefits.
The last thing these unions would sanction would be the mass employment of young workers on a temporary basis at living, but not union-scale, wages and benefits.
That means doing things it has been loath to do: cut wages and benefits for unionized workers, eliminate marginal brands like Pontiac, Saturn and Saab and slash its dealer network.
Consider, if total real compensation, wages and benefits, grows at just 1% a year, after 20 years the real incomes of working people would be only 22% greater.
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The report notes that when it comes to retirement, severely and morbidly obese employees retire earlier than normal-weight employees, which translates to less income in wages and benefits.
As the job market tightens wages and benefits go up.
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The unavoidable conclusion is that the union trashed managers in Cleveland to disguise its sacrifice of jobs and health-care benefits of members there to protect wages and benefits elsewhere.
And crucially, it has begun to realise big savings from cuts in wages and benefits after contracts were renegotiated with its staff - who had partly owned the airline.
The automakers also asked the president to address the weak Japanese yen, which they said is costing thousands of U.S. manufacturing jobs and putting downward pressure on wages and benefits.
Ultimately, the real income changes are comparable under the two systems, but the currency depreciation option does not require money wages and benefits to decline, where stickiness leads to unemployment.
At sustained 3% growth in wages and benefits, after 20 years the living standards of working people will have almost doubled, and after 40 years they will have more than tripled.
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Dr. ZULLO: Honda, Toyota and so forth maintain decent wages and benefits for their employees, in part out of the threat that the UAW will come in and organize those units.
In the internet age one can imagine U.S. wide worker organizations that firms can use to communicate with their workforce and draw on information on wages and benefits from other firms.
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