Sentences with phrase «ordinary workers»

May wanted it higher, well out the reach of ordinary workers.

That suggests that cutting corporate taxes would be a very easy way to raise wages for ordinary workers.

No one should blame ordinary workers in the NHS for this.

Remember, you will not only be working with ordinary workers.

Instead, if ordinary workers get any retirement benefits at all, they tend to be the much less generous and riskier 401 (k)- type plans.

Governments must create a more equal society by prioritizing ordinary workers and small - scale food producers instead of the rich and powerful.

If you support lower wages for ordinary workers, please, advocate higher business taxes: go ahead, be my guest.

Electrical Trades Union state secretary Troy Gray said demand for a Senate inquiry was coming from ordinary workers in factories, shops, offices and service providers, where «powerless and voiceless Australians spend their working lives, our of sight from the political and corporate elite».

«With ordinary workers facing the toughest squeeze in living standards for 90 years, it takes a special kind of arrogance to consider a pay rise ten times the level of average settlements as «restrained».»

The public should be made to see that oil was not a little group of robber barons, but a multitude of people — surveyors and drillers and engineers and stevedores and scientists and plain ordinary workers.

Critics say the central bank's actions made Wall Street and the super-rich even fatter, fueling a stock market surge while leaving many ordinary workers no better off and widening the nation's wealth inequality.

While ordinary workers have strict limits on how much they can put in 401 (k) plans every year ($ 24,000 max for older workers), CEOs are allowed to shelter unlimited amounts from the IRS in these accounts.

On the federal level, while the wages of ordinary workers find no shelter from the Internal Revenue Service, exemptions and special preferences for landowners whittle down their taxes or turn real estate losses into profits.

«And let me say this, I believe there isn't a boardroom in Britain that wouldn't benefit from giving ordinary workers a voice.

In the US, Bernie Sanders» rhetoric about the raw deal ordinary workers get from big business, and his appeals for a responsible capitalism, chimes with Labour's approach.

He has effectively pinpointed the way the modern British economy stacks the odds against ordinary workers.

The National Insurance increase will hit ordinary workers and business, though of course we welcome the exemption for those earning # 20,000 or below, which is nearly half the workforce.»

Unions have questioned the above - inflation salary rises when ordinary workers face lower rises and tough years ahead.

We are looking to the court to make sure that millions of ordinary workers will not be left facing a bleak and uncertain future at a time when cost of living is soaring.»

Further evidence of how out of touch today's champagne sipping union barons are with ordinary workers can be seen in the results of strike action ballots.

As they have in Ireland, senior staff in the public sector need to show leadership so they can deliver pay restraint needed from ordinary workers.

What Fastenal and these other companies recognize is that to get really big, they have to create a culture that is so easy to learn and live by that ordinary workers can thrive.

For example, it became clear rather early on that the majority of victims of the Terror were ordinary workers and peasants — people who presented no challenge to Stalin's power.

In his lectures on SQC Deming promoted his own ideas along with the technique, namely a much greater involvement of the ordinary worker in the quality process and the application of the new statistical tools.

And she herself claims to be only taking an «ordinary worker's salary» while funneling tens of thousands of dollars through her «solidarity fund» into opaque organizations with which she has intimate connections and deep financial relationships.

If you go out and talk to people who have ordinary jobs, not in certain high - powered jobs, but ordinary workers, they're still afraid of getting laid off»..

«While slashing jobs and benefits for ordinary workers, CEOs of large companies have been feathering their own nests,» says Sarah Anderson, report co-author and director of the IPS Global Economy Project.

The first man is in a debt of 10,000 talents which is the equivalent of 100 million silver drachmas - an impossible amount ever to pay off for an ordinary worker.

He replied with some satisfaction that he would defend the enterprise as having brought hope to ordinary workers.

His old identity must not be eclipsed by the appearance of a new identity as «ordinary worker» or «talented young adult.»

He plumped for a supply - side strategy of tax cuts, even though the strategy failed to produce the private savings, the balanced budget or the economic benefits for ordinary workers that some of his theorists had forecast.

Athletes» salaries seem extraordinary to the ordinary worker.

Emphasizing individual economic liberties obscures the question of who sets the choices available to ordinary workers.

Tomasi faults leftist political theorists for being insufficiently familiar with or sympathetic to Amy's experiences, but there is little in Free Market Fairness to suggest that Tomasi is familiar with or sympathetic to the moral experiences of ordinary workers.

The bonuses should be redistributed and used in a socially responsible way including tackling the appalling low pay of the ordinary workers in Britain's banks.»

As societies get wealthier in goods but poorer in time, there are compelling reasons of both social justice and social rationality to restructure markets and employment rules so that ordinary workers can more easily choose time over pay.

An emphasis on individual economic liberties obscures the question of who sets the menu of choices available to ordinary workers.

«Ordinary workers can't pick and choose when they get paid so they can avoid tax.»

His only chance at surviving the task he has set himself is to make the party a more attractive prospect for ordinary workers.

In fairness, George Osborne made many good calls — but to him ordinary workers were just another income group on a Whitehall spreadsheet.

George Osborne made good calls — but to him ordinary workers were just another income group on a Whitehall spreadsheet

Dave Prentis, general secretary of public services union Unison, said: «These spiteful proposals will deny millions of ordinary workers a voice at work.

It's only when you track the median wage — that of the ordinary worker — that you see the effect.

Miliband also promised to clamp down on zero - hours contracts and accused David Cameron of oozing contempt for ordinary workers

Despite more than a decade of gentrification, shifting demographics and a wall of glassy buildings that have gone up on either side of the north - south corridor, most of the passersby were black and Hispanic — ordinary workers, residents and shoppers, with a few obviously mentally ill or under the influence individuals tossed in.

Freezing public sector pay, when inflation is running at 5.1 per cent and VAT is going up will mean a real cut in living standards for millions of ordinary workers and their families.