Sentence examples for pitiful wages from inspiring English sources

We were paid pitiful wages; after rent and food there was precious little left over.

Pitiful wages and inadequate transportation forced the working-class migrants to live close to the mill sites in factory chawls.

But mostly, Ms. Valastro said, they end up working for pitiful wages in restaurants or fruit markets.

As few as one-tenth of the labour force have their own businesses; the rest work in state-owned firms earning pitiful wages.

Eighty per cent of the world's bestselling toys are manufactured in Chinese sweatshops by workers on pitiful wages, often working seven days a week.

Corruption, shoddy infrastructure and political instability discourage private investment, which Haiti desperately needs to bring down unemployment and raise its pitiful wages.

No, the sad part is the people selling popcorn or directing parking lot traffic for a pitiful wage who, like all the workers not tending to their iron-cocooned shops, should have the day (holy or not) to be with their families, or watch 10 Robert De Niro movies, or just enjoy the quiet.

The quiet heroes of the movement are the chambermaids, cleaners, security guards, carers, cooks and shop staff who have told their stories, battling to stretch a pitiful wage, often subjected to bullying and intimidation in the workplace, rotten conditions, stress and exhaustion.

"Our members are fed up with pitiful pay offers and Arriva's 'pick and mix' approach to wages where some depots get a pay rise and others don't.

It's the same story as I saw firsthand in Honduras, where our joint complaint was filed three years ago or Guatemala where Froman finally intervened six years after similar complaints about the destruction of human rights, failure to pay even the pitiful minimum wage or enforce any labor regulations.

Housing conditions were appalling and the wages pitiful.