Strikers' demands differ from sector to sector, but the most common is a plea for the new minimum wage – awarded to around a third of state employees in January – to be rolled out to all public- and private-sector workers.
She correctly concluded by then that the cause of inflation was government, and that governments accommodated high-wage awards and accommodated upward pressure on prices by printing money and that came out as inflation.
What also attracted me to her was that she did not believe that trade unions achieving high-wage awards or employers achieving large price rises were causes of inflation.
To measure the cost of inflation, they look at how much individual employers' pay awards deviate from overall nominal wage growth in the economy.
State guidance through setting the minimum wage or awards is primordial in France, Australia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel and, since 2010, in Greece and Portugal.
Unlike the soaring pay awarded to highly compensated CEOs, the minimum wage has not even kept up with inflation.
"The average civil servant earns £22,520 a year - less than the national average wage - and the majority do not receive any performance-related pay award at all.
Most punitive damages are closely tailored to the amount of compensatory damages, such as medical expenses and lost wages, previously awarded and consider the defendant's wealth and ability to pay.
When Stella D'Oro workers went on strike in 2008 protesting unfair wages, Emmy Award winning filmmakers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill were right alongside them covering their story for a documentary.
Nearly 1.9m Australians are affected by the minimum wage and the award minimum wage.
Mr. Bloomberg has said he will not award wage increases to more than 250,000 city workers unless the unions agree to productivity gains to finance the raises.
