Sentence examples for wage fights from inspiring English sources

Even at the racetrack, which tends to be a hardscrabble place, owners and trainers have a hard time understanding how someone who is young and talented and comes across as articulate and gentlemanly can also have a violent side, wage fights with a pool stick and wind up in jail.

They wage fights against each other, they go on talk shows, they're spotted around town.

The real message from all of these wage fights is clear: Until we hold some of our country's largest employers accountable to paying their workers better (not to mention paying them what they've actually earned), we'll continue to see taxpayers footing the bill for corporate irresponsibility.

"We're prepared to continue this wage fight over a long period," said Bernhard Schiederig of Verdi's Hesse branch.

Maybe Gurkhas were first engaged as soldiers for hire to the East India Company in 1815, to earn their wage, fight and risk their lives, and then return to their native Nepal.

Consider, more recently, the fight for a higher minimum wage ("Fight for 15").

I hope that it'll raise more empathy around minimum wage fight in NYC.

That bill also failed, though the state restaurant association has said it will take its minimum wage fight to the ballot in 2014.

(Note: Sawant has detailed her grievances in an open letter to the mayor, while her grassroots army has begun mobilizing as a show of force before the minimum wage fight concludes).

Our own Kerry Eleveld offered a radical solution, namely: "Take credit for the successes, talk about the fact that there's more to do, champion the minimum wage fight ($10.10 polls at 70percentt!), make the case for 'trickle-up' economics".

State by state, liberals and conservatives are waging fights over who can be granted or denied protections related to housing, employment or even public bathrooms.