But that economic growth has come with a rising standard of living, and workers are
demanding more pay.
Can workers organize and
demand more pay, shorter hours, and better working conditions as they did in the North Atlantic countries?
Teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona have hit the streets, leaving behind students and standards, to
demand more pay.
If you have more years of experience and a higher level of education or more certifications, you can
demand more pay.
Not exact matches
Increased consumer spending will grow the top line of businesses, and increase the need for
more workers to meet the higher
demand for goods and services... and earning better
pay.
On -
demand, on - the - go meals: The app AirGrub lets travelers preorder and
pay for meals from airport restaurants ahead of arrival — so no
more missed flights.
CEOs are caught between penny - pinching customers
demanding value for less money and employees wanting
more pay for less work.
It would mean that those who have to
pay for labor are willing to
pay more and those who provide labor (workers) are able to
demand and obtain
more.
At the same time, employers in some industries
paid markedly
more to keep the most in -
demand talent from leaving, most noticeably among younger Millennials and Gen Z. Consider: While all U.S. employees who stayed put in the first three months of 2016 saw an average raise that works out to 4.6 % annually, the 24 - and - younger age group almost doubled that, at 9.1 %.
He confirmed that the U.S. had been willing to drop its
demand that 50 per cent of every car consist of American parts, in exchange for a new system that credits parts - makers when they
pay more than $ 15 an hour.
At Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) we take a
more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer to others of purchasing power now with the reasoned expectation of receiving
more purchasing power — after taxes have been
paid on nominal gains — in the future.
High
demand for diesel and home heating fuel in particular means refineries are willing to
pay more for crude oil, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at Oil Price Information Service.
Most solar cells use silicon semiconductors, and the
more attention
paid to the alternative energy, the
more these chips will be in
demand.
With oil prices climbing and
demand high, drivers are
paying more to fill their gas tanks than they have in three years.
Increase
demand for your product or service, target a vertical market niche, add value, generate a good ROI, and guarantee satisfaction, and customers will gladly
pay your price, even if it's 50 to100 percent or
more above what your competitors charge.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to
more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient
demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to
pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Tactics have ranged from threatening but harmless pop ups purporting to be from law enforcement agencies
demanding fines, to the
more malicious and damaging tactic of encrypting the victim's files in an attempt to force users to
pay to have the files returned.
More and more Australian businesses are being hit by hackers, who lock up files and demand a ransom — almost half of the victims pay
More and
more Australian businesses are being hit by hackers, who lock up files and demand a ransom — almost half of the victims pay
more Australian businesses are being hit by hackers, who lock up files and
demand a ransom — almost half of the victims
pay up.
Demands for equal treatment for women are reflected in 70 resolutions about fair treatment and fair
pay at work, in addition to three dozen
more seeking boards that are less «pale, male and stale.»
But closing down unnecessary capacity can
pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of
demand which is likely to be
more labor intensive than the
demand created in the process of over-capacity.
Valet Anywhere tried to make on -
demand parking work for several months in New York, but founder Robert Kao says «there was no way» to charge a customer
more money than it cost to
pay for labor and the parking space.
And the Western banks are
demanding that Latvia and the Baltics
pay by squeezing out even
more of an economic surplus with even
more neoliberal «reforms» that threaten to drive even
more of their labor abroad as their economies shrink and poverty spreads.
The second element of the failure framework, the observation that technologies can progress faster than market
demand... means that in their efforts to provide better products than their competitors and earn higher prices and margins, suppliers often «overshoot» their market: They give customers
more than they need or ultimately are willing to
pay for.
Spotify last month beefed up its free tier with on -
demand playlists, song recommendations, and a new low - data mode with the hopes that a
more robust free tier will convert
more listeners into
paid subscribers.
«Consumers now have a high
demand for trust in what they're buying,» he said, noting that statistics show that most consumers — especially millennials — will
pay more for brands and products that are sustainable.
In a blog post last week, Uber said, in order to maintain the speed of delivery for its UberEATS service, customers in certain cities will have to
pay more for delivery when they order from a restaurant in areas of high
demand but where delivery partners are few and far between.
Uber is asking customers in select cities to
pay more when they order from restaurants that are in high
demand.
This will not only lower
demand in the economy, but will also likely result in higher taxes to
pay for higher spending on the income - tested Guaranteed Income Supplement to Old Age Security, which is already
paid to
more than one in three seniors.
As people lose faith in the ability of central bankers to maintain the value of their product, which is fiat currency, they will
demand that
more interest is
paid when they hold debt instruments that are denominated in a depreciating currency.
If the amount of debt available reduces by 30 - 40 per cent, it either must be replaced by
more equity or by a reduction of
demand (i.e. the price a purchaser is willing / able to
pay).
While the zeros and ones behind publishing platforms get
more complex, the process for content creators and consumers has simplified and should continue to do so.The bottom line is content creators who make good quality content that people are willing to
pay for deserve a simple and transparent digital media sharing platform that fairly compensates them according to the consumer
demand for their work.
However, at present the banks are not eager to lend a lot of money to the private sector — private sector credit
demand has also decreased and in fact become negative (
more loans are
paid back than are taken out).
This is a far
more demanding project than creating some ideal city in speech, because it means one actually has to
pay attention to existing orders and arrangements.
It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in
demanding and low -
paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much
more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.
They know that if they start asking the wealthy to give
more money, the wealthy will hit back by
demanding churches
pay taxes and share their wealth as well.
Campaigners from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service
demanded a price cut after they claimed that British women
pay up to five times
more than their European neighbours.
«We made the decision to vertically integrate to capture this
demand and capture a greater margin, which in turn allows us to become
more profitable and
pay growers a higher return,» he adds.
In order to create wheat that yields
more grain, resist fungal diseases and pest attacks, improves the ease of harvesting (mechanically) and meets the unrealistic
demands of industrial milling and mechanized baking methods, science has intervened and it's our health that's
paying the price.
Anyway tropical traditions isn't telling the whole story perhaps because they will now have to
pay more to maintain an exclusive Philippine market of meat / oil palm trees instead of allowing farmers to diversify to profit from market
demand.
UK dairy processor Milk Link will
pay farmers
more money for their organic milk from this October as the industry attempts to keep pace with soaring
demand.
However, consumers in countries with well developed organic sectors do
pay a premium for organic goods, mainly because of higher consumer
demand,
more rigorous production standards, and the costs of certification, among other reasons.
Well, these big food companies realize that people are willing to
pay more for organic (rightly so), and there is a lot of
demand for such products.
As the
demand for local produce and catch continues to soar,
more and
more Americans are
paying close attention to the origin of their food.
The Pats make a trade so they don't have to
pay a WR who is up for a contract extension and immediately they want OBJ who is going to
demand at least 18 million per year???
More money than they are
paying TB12?
If Walcott wants reasonable
pay that's fine, but if he's
demanding more than what he deserves then I would get someone else as long as we don't sell him to a rival or contender... There's a few out there, we would have to start the scouting now if they already haven't started thinking ahead...
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Damn supply and
demand If the
demand doesn't dwindle then the price will not drop, as long as
more than enough people are happy to
pay the # 97 to fill the stadium then who cares what the poor people think right?
Tell City we want # 150 million,
demand more than he is worth like Monaco pushes teams to
pay big fees.
Jansen I agree with you 100 %, I was just trying to suggest that the reason for the delay in Arsenal
paying Ozil & Sanchez the money they want, is that they don't want these other players then
demanding more, and that «hopefully» once they are all signed up, Arsenal will
pay Sanchez & Ozil whats necessary to keep them.
Arsene will be blamed for all the misery (and rightly so) that has come to us and will come again next season if he stays, but for the owner its pretty easy to
pay him 2
more millions an year and let him deflect all the problems, rather than risk losing his trusty financial employee for a guy who might
demand actions that will take us forward.