Mr. Lopez made available wage records from F & K showing that no crew member worked more than 40 hours a week, a virtual impossibility, he said, given the nature of the workday.
No matter how available wage data is sliced and diced, a single truth remains: a wage gap exists between male and female workers.
Unfortunately, that doesn't change the fact that many available jobs pay wages insufficient for family stability — even with the increase to minimum wage that Obama is aiming for in 2015.
Unions have embraced this, knowing that if companies paid less into the fund, there might be more available for wages.
As more homes become available and wages continue to outpace inflation, Mr Gardner said, a "comfortable equilibrium" could soon emerge.
Such a levy would produce a money market in which there were all sellers and no buyers, sending the Bank Rate up to infinity, breaking the banks, and bringing industry to a standstill by the transfer of all the cash available for wages to the national treasury.
Goakeeper Bell's decision to drop two divisions and join Rangers is another sad indictment of the amount of money available for wages at any Scottish club other than Celtic or their Glasgow rivals.
However, increased income inequality since that time means that the cap only covers around 84percentt of the available taxable wages.
Between November 2012 and November 2013, the latest data available, hourly wages for nonsupervisory workers rose just 2.1percentt, just barely ahead of inflation.
The more they spend on insurance, the less that's available for wage increases.
