Sentence examples for demand for raises from inspiring English sources

Mr. Levin said the clerical union's demand for raises of 8.5percentt a year could not be taken seriously.

Ms. Thompson said that officials from the city and the library had last met with the union in September; there was no action on the union's demand for raises.

At a four-hour negotiating session at the hotel, the Sheraton New York, building owners sought to persuade the union, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, to scale back its demand for raises exceeding the rate of inflation — which was 4.3percentt nationally over the past 12 months.

Any time you sincerely want to change your life, one of the first things you must do is change what you demand for yourself and raise your standards.

Educational system responds as well to demand for new skills and competences raised by business.

The organization was founded in 1973 by a group of office workers in Boston, and its demands for "raises, rights and respect" had widespread appeal.

A1 Rally for Higher Wages Thousands of teachers, police officers and firefighters packed several blocks of Broadway near City Hall Park in a demonstration of their demands for raises and new labor contracts.

The teachers and the police fought for months with Mr. Giuliani over their demands for raises of 20percentt or more to help them catch up with their higher-paid counterparts in the suburbs.

In a spirited showing of labor strength, thousands of teachers, police officers and firefighters packed several blocks of Broadway near City Hall yesterday, chanting and waving signs and at times booing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in a demonstration of their demands for raises and new labor contracts.

Under federal law, the strikers could ask for their jobs back in exchange for dropping their demands for raises, but each worker would have to wait for the next available opening.

Representatives Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and Mick Mulvaney, founders of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, told Reuters in an interview that there was not enough time for House Republicans to rally around a list of demands for raising the $18.1 trillion U.S. borrowing limit.