Sentences with phrase «suppressed wages»

«Being undervalued in one job can condemn a woman to a cycle of suppressed wages for the rest of her career,» said Erie County Majority Leader April Baskin.

In an economy where consumer spending drives about 70 % of economic activity, suppressed wages will continue to drag on America's post-crisis recovery.

«You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs,» Bush said.

The erosion of unions» power will also suppress wages gains.

Thus, insisting on strong English skills as a condition of coming to America is likely to increase labor market competition and suppress wages.

Critics say they suppress wages, weaken the collective bargaining authority of unions and leave workers at the mercy of employers in negotiations over pay, benefits and working conditions.

«A significant number of employers are using the Temporary Foreign Worker Program as a tool to suppress wages,» AFL president Gil McGowan charges.

Many employers try to suppress wages and benefits by redefining their relationships with workers — improperly calling employees «independent contractors» or contracting out their labor needs.

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

Is it Christlike to flood the workplace with newly legalized low skilled workers thus suppressing wages for those who are getting paid the least as it is?

In dismissing the lawsuit, Judge Alsup noted that the former cheerleader failed to explain how teams had conspired to suppress wages.

The name is hilariously overwrought, and the general idea is to suppress wages at the lowest level to protect the profits of millionaires, but there's more to it than that.

[P] ublic policy to broadly stimulate the number of STEM graduates will have no direct effect on the overall economic performance of Indiana, and risk [s] suppressing the wages or increasing outmigration of future STEM graduates.

That is, of course, the preferred solution of our large corporations — such as tech companies exploiting H1 - B visas to suppress wages of tech workers.

Labour hates large immigration because it tends to suppress wages.

«It suppresses wages for everyone when musicians play for free,» she says.

Defended offshore petroleum drilling company, where plaintiffs alleged that defendants conspired to suppress the wages paid to workers in violation of the antitrust laws

In the letter, McGowan reminds Prentice that too many construction companies have used TFWs to suppress wages, displace Canadians and ignore their responsibility to train the next generation of home - grown apprentices.

In addition to the list of businesses that use TFWs to fill more than 30 and 50 per cent of their jobs, the AFL also released documents showing that many construction companies in Alberta have been using TFWs to suppress the wages of tradespeople.

«Rather than working on the side of businesspeople who want to use TFWs to suppress wages and displace Canadians, the Premier should be taking the side of working Albertans who have bills to pay and kids to raise,» AFL president Gil McGowan said.

A wide range of experts — from the Parliamentary Budget Officer to the former governor of the Bank of Canada to former Employment Minister Jason Kenney himself — now agree that the Temporary Foreign Worker Program was being used to suppress wages.

«It's bad enough when businesses in the fast food industry are allowed to use TFWs to suppress wages, but when you start seeing the same thing happening with welders, ironworkers and electricians it becomes clear that the situation has gotten completely out of hand.

Not exact matches

There are many other ways of allocating a significant portion of the debt - servicing cost to unwilling agents in the economic equivalent of debt forgiveness: to creditors when debt is repudiated, to workers when wages are suppressed in order to increase net revenues for debt servicing, to small business owners when assets are expropriated to pay down debt, and so on.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

Research has suggested that as workers from the «baby boomer» generation with relatively high salaries have retired, they have been replaced by younger employees receiving lower wages, thereby suppressing the rise in paychecks.

But in his letter Cable wrote: «As you will recall, there were reviews, studies and reports into whether the assumption that immigration suppressed UK wages was supported by the evidence.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Ms Harman said Labour shared people's concerns over wages being suppressed by cheaper, foreign workers.

Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat MP and former business minister in the coalition government, said nine studies crossed his desk that attempted to assess the impact on wages across the economy, all of which he claims were suppressed by the Home Office.

While it could be argued that The Wages of Fear was censored to suppress the film's homoeroticism and anti-Americanism, it also seems quite possible that the original distributor simply wanted to pack in more shows per day, or not scare away the action crowd with the movie's length.

When this happens, wages and job opportunities are suppressed and tensions between citizens and newcomers become enflamed.

They are just as much victims of bad public policy as the Canadians who have been displaced by the program whose wages have been suppressed.