Sentence examples for by increasing their pay from inspiring English sources

He won the soldiers' support by increasing their pay and permitting them to marry.

Two state legislators are proposing laws that would improve the working conditions for migrant workers in the logging industry by increasing their pay or requiring companies to make the work environment safer.

"The Government took the tough decision to freeze public sector pay for two years, while protecting those earning under £21,000 by increasing their pay by at least £250 per year.

Mr. Klein, who has made no secret that he wants to improve teacher quality, came out with a doozy: Reduce the number of teachers by 30percentt, and increase their pay 30percentt.

In 2007, the administration settled a retroactive contract with the police sergeants' union that increased their pay by 27.5percentt over six years.

A day before a planned rally in Central Park to protest firefighters' wages, the Uniformed Firefighters Association yesterday rejected a city wage proposal to increase their pay by 11.5percentt over 30 months.

Everyone's being paid precisely their marginal product (their value added to their firm's production at the margin) and to increase their pay by mandate is to render them unaffordable.

The new minimum wage in both LA County and the City of Los Angeles is part of a growing movement among low-wage workers and their allies around the country to increase their pay by pushing state and local government policymakers to raise minimum wages and by putting direct pressure on employers to hike pay rates.

Even at a time of heightened scrutiny and biting austerity, our corporate leaders increased their pay packages by 12% in 2011/12 when wages for everyone else in the private sector were up by 1%, according to a survey by Manifest and MM&K.

Many of them were low-wage employees of companies like Walmart and McDonald's, which have since pledged to increase their workers' pay by $1-$1-$2 hour, a raise activists said is still not enough.

After months of protests, risking arrests and loss of jobs, low-wage workers in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota will be able to vote to increase their own pay by simply checking off a box.