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unusual facts about wages



1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike

At first the union was not recognised by the Chamber of Mines, but after sustained pressure for better wages and conditions, the prime minister, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, announced some piecemeal increases improvements in conditions while at the same time issuing War Measure No. 1425—banning gatherings of more than twenty people on mining property without permission.

Allen Edmonds

Wages, benefits, government regulations of the workplace, emissions permits, taxes, and health care costs are all significant costs that could be drastically reduced by locating production overseas in a developing country.

Antonio Baseotto

Due to a previous agreement with the Vatican, this post implies an official position as Subsecretary of State (with monthly wages of about 4,500 Argentine pesos, about 1,500 USD).

Bobby Peel

That evening, when he went to collect his wages at the end of the game, the Yorkshire secretary, Joseph Wolstenholme, informed him of the suspension on the grounds that his play was "unsatisfactory", and when pressed by Peel for an explanation, he told him: "You have had a glass too much".

British Columbia Family Maintenance Enforcement Program

Administrative enforcement actions include Notices of Attachment, which require the garnishment of wages and other sources of income or the interception of federal payments (such as employment insurance benefits and income tax returns), reporting arrears to the credit bureau, refusing to issue or renew a payor’s driver’s license, and placing a lien on a payor's land or personal property.

Catavi Massacre

When Siglo XX and Catavi mine workers presented a petition demanding a 100% increase in wages in 1942, management refused to negotiate and the miners' union leaders called for a strike.

Charles Skouras

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Kiel Opera House.

Coalworker's pneumoconiosis

The miners' union, the United Mine Workers of America, realized that rapid mechanization meant drills that produced much more dust, but under John L. Lewis they decided not to raise the black lung issue because it might impede the mechanization that was producing higher productivity and higher wages.

Confessions of a Vice Baron

Constance Worth as Judy (edited from Wages of Sin) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Clara Kimball Young as Fat Pearl (edited from Wages of Sin) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dave Challinor

Though Challinor only received a yellow card, Carlton Palmer, Stockport's player-manager, fined Challinor two weeks’ wages and called the tackle "horrendous".

Drew Halfmann

"Wage wars: Institutional politics, WPA wages, and the struggle for US social policy." American Sociological Review 65(4):506-528

Economic citizenship

Similarly, Alice Kessler-Harris discusses the relationship between one’s ability to labor, and his or her right to equal wages as a component of citizenship.

Fee and dividend

Inspired by the Fee and dividend structure Republican Congressman Bob Inglis introduced a H.R. 2380 on May 13, 2009 in the U.S. House of Representatives called the 'Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009'.

Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union

It was organized in 1970 as the Fishermen's Union by Father Desmond McGrath and Richard Cashin in order to organize fishplant workers who, at the time, were exempt from the province's minimum wage and were thus paid sub-minimum wages.

Flat tax

Flat tax plans that are presently being advanced in the United States also seek to redefine "sources of income"; current progressive taxes count interest, dividends and capital gains as income, for example, while Steve Forbes's variant of the flat tax would apply to wages only.

George Skouras

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Kiel Opera House.

Great Depression in France

On the night of 7–8 June 1936, employers and unions signed the Matignon agreement by which they raised wages by 7 to 15 percent to increase workers' buying power, to stimulate the economy and to bring an end to the strikes.

Henry Ludwell Moore

Moore's first book, on testing the marginal productivity theory of wages, was well received as a pioneering venture, although Alfred Marshall refused to read it, telling Moore that "it proceeds on lines which I deliberately decided not to follow many years ago."

Hicks-neutral technical change

The concept of Hicks neutrality was first put forth in 1932 by John Hicks in his book The Theory of Wages.

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of over 64,000 employees of Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm (the last two are subsidiaries of Disney) against their employer alleging that their wages were repressed due to alleged agreements between their employers not to hire employees from their competitors.

History of coal mining in the United States

Under John L. Lewis, the United Mine Workers became the dominant force in the coal fields in the 1930s and 1940s, producing high wages and benefits.

IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez

Workers for the Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. (IBP, Inc.), now known as Tyson Foods, Inc., filed a class-action lawsuit requesting reparations for unpaid wages.

Indians in the United Arab Emirates

On March 21, 2006, construction workers, many of whom were Indian, rioted at the construction site of Burj Khalifa, upset over bus timings, poor wages and living conditions.

Involuntary unemployment

Following earlier disequilibrium research including that of Robert Barro and Herschel Grossman, work by Edmund Malinvaud clarified the distinction between classical unemployment, where real wages are too high for markets to clear, and Keynesian unemployment, involuntary unemployment due to inadequate aggregate demand.

Iron law

Iron law of wages, from Ferdinand Lassalle's Subsistence theory of wages (mid 19th century)

Jacques Drèze

Roberts, J. (1987), "An equilibrium model with involuntary unemployment at flexible, competitive prices and wages", American Economic Review 77, 856-74.

Joe Kendrick, Jr.

This resulted in in Kendrick taking Neftchi Baku to CAS over unpaid wages and winning.

Judson Health Center

Campbell, who refused any wages for her services throughout her lifetime, was born Eleanor Milbank Anderson, the daughter of philanthropist and public health advocate Elizabeth Milbank Anderson (1850-1921) and the artist Abraham Archibald Anderson (1846-1940).

Linda Sánchez

Following Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, President George W. Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, a 1934 law that requires government contractors to pay prevailing wages.

Mantorras

Mantorras did not forget his humble roots: soon after joining Benfica, he turned his thoughts to the less fortunate in his homeland, promising to donate a hefty percentage of his wages to set up a home for street kids in Luanda.

Market abolitionism

Economists such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and Brink Lindsey argue that if the market is eliminated along with property, prices, and wages, then the mode of information transmission is eliminated and what will result is a highly inefficient system for transmitting the value, supply, demand, of goods, services, resources, along with an elimination of the most efficient mode of market transactions.

Mera Yaar Mera Dushman

The story is on Narcotics and their illegal smuggling and involvement of the staff of big industries, who are harassed by rising prices and low wages.The story opens with Zarina Wahab being forced into narcotics smuggling by her brother-in-law Sujit Kumar, due to her wheel chair ridden sister Beena Banerjee.

Military history of Chad

In addition to the wages paid its forces, Chad received economic benefits from three years of use as a major route for Allied supply convoys and flights to North Africa and Egypt.

Minimum wage

Three other possible reasons minimum wages do not affect employment were suggested by Alan Blinder: higher wages may reduce turnover, and hence training costs; raising the minimum wage may "render moot" the potential problem of recruiting workers at a higher wage than current workers; and minimum wage workers might represent such a small proportion of a business's cost that the increase is too small to matter.

Mounir El Hamdaoui

However, due to the financial issues AZ was having because of the bankruptcy of sponsor DSB Bank, it was clear that the striker would have to be sold to reduce the burden of his wages on the budget balance.

Nélson Pereira

After 2005–06 Nélson moved to Vitória Futebol Clube, but due to unpaid wages – a recurring problem in the club for the past seasons prior to his arrival – he left the sadinos, being out of work for almost six months before joining another Lisbon side, C.F. Estrela da Amadora, in July 2007.

North West Norfolk by-election, 1912

He endorsed the programme of the National Agricultural Labourers and Rural Workers Union which called for Trade Boards to set agricultural wages.

Norwegian Long Haul

They have been paid only about 3000 NOK a month which is far less than the minimum wages in Norway and in other parts of Europe.

Poverty in Canada

Under the Constitution of Canada, the responsibility for enacting and enforcing labour laws including minimum wages in Canada rests with the ten provinces, the three territories also having been granted this power by virtue of federal legislation.

Prateep Ungsongtham Hata

She saved money from her meagre wages (about one baht per day) and at 15 she was able to pay for secondary education at an evening school.

Prevailing wage

In the Davis–Bacon Act all federal government construction contracts, and most contracts for federally assisted construction over $2,000, must include provisions for paying workers on-site no less than the locally prevailing wages and benefits paid on similar projects.

Pullman Strike

During a severe depression (the Panic of 1893), the Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages as demand for new passenger cars plummeted and the company's revenue dropped.

Skouras Brothers Enterprises

Living frugally on wages as busboys and bartenders in downtown hotels, they pooled their savings of $3500 in 1914 and in partnership with two other Greeks, they constructed a modest nickelodeon (movie theater) at 1420 Market Street on the site of today's Peabody Opera House.

Susquehanna Boom

Men like James H. Perkins, Peter Herdic, and Mahlon Fisher became millionaires while many of the men who actually worked in the river struggled to survive on the wages paid to them by the lumber barons.

Tapiwa Zivira

In December 2008, Zivira was arrested together with the leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions while covering a demonstration against Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono's quasi fiscal policies that saw the Zimbabwe dollar losing its value and affecting the working class's wages.

Thomas G. Pullen

During the William Preston Lane, Jr. governorship Pullen was responsible for two hundred new buildings or additions, and the average teacher wages increased 53 percent.

United Workers Association

In 2004 the United Workers Association launched a campaign to secure living wages at the Oriole Park at Camden Yards, targeting Baltimore Orioles team owner Peter Angelos by demanding that he pay cleaners a living wage.

Vibora Luviminda

The Vibora Luviminda conducted the last labor strike of an ethnic nature in the Hawaiian Islands against four Maui sugar plantations in 1937, demanding higher wages and dismissal of five foremen.

West Branch Susquehanna River

Men like James H. Perkins, Peter Herdic, and Mahlon Fisher became millionaires while many of the men who actually worked in the river struggled to survive on the wages paid to them by the lumber barons.


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