Sentence examples for dreadful pay from inspiring English sources

As founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union in the 1960s, he led strikes and boycotts to protest the dreadful pay and working conditions of the mostly immigrant labour force that picked the crops in California and Florida.

"We believe the strike will be well supported because of the dreadful pay situation and the appalling treatment of civil service workers, with offices being closed, jobs lost, the threat of privatisation and clamping down on sick pay," Mr Serwotka said.

If it simply means 'best paid' then that tells its own story: that it is actually such a dreadful job we have to pay over the odds to tempt Fabio Capello.

Sentiment may be dreadful but dividends pay the bills.

Turkey's dreadful 1990s put paid to any idea of reviving it quickly.

Or any woman appalled by corporate America's dreadful attitude towards paid maternity leave.

With clichéd misunderstandings resolved and the dead Nureddin resurrected, the opera ends with a dreadful, soupy song paying homage to the Caliph.

In 1832, after three years on the British stage, she and her father left to tour "that dreadful America," hoping to pay off family debts.

Except that the pay is dreadful, these poor nurses really work hard without considering themselves.

It also has a dreadful impact on those paid to provide state-funded care.

And now, in consequence, though calm, almost placid, they had been transformed from my charges into furies... .. Hannah pays a dreadful price for her naivety and indifference.