Sentence examples for raise worker from inspiring English sources

(Paradoxically, unions raise worker wages, but strikes generally don't).

That, in turn, would raise worker bargaining power and encourage firms to invest more in retaining and training their workers.

BEIJING — Foxconn Technology, one of the biggest manufacturers of products for Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other electronics companies, said Saturday that it would sharply raise worker salaries at its Chinese factories.

"Even if factory owners do make changes – such as the two years it took to raise worker wages by between $6 to $7 a month – the impacts on workers' lives are limited within the workplace itself," she said.

With legislative deals worth billions of dollars to raise worker salaries, the governor cemented his relationships with the two most politically powerful labor groups, 1199/S.E.I.U., the health care workers union, and the United Federation of Teachers.

In early 2008, the Chinese government enacted two laws — the Labor Contract Law and the Law on Mediation and Arbitration of Labor Disputes — that did much to raise worker awareness, even if strict enforcement was lacking, scholars of Chinese labor issues said.

That would raise workers' productivity and, eventually, wages.

Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, predicted the excise tax would raise workers' wages from 2010 to 2019.

–If you raise workers' wages, they'll just be replaced by machines.

A Tory government will bridge regional divides, give young people a foot on the housing ladder and raise workers' productivity.

Photo: A deal that was announced by Gov. Eliot Spitzer and legislative leaders in Albany yesterday would raise workers' compensation benefits.