Tens of thousands of workers have accepted wage cuts pressed on them by embattled employers, cuts that in many cases pushed their wages below middle-class levels.
He spoke up fearlessly on workers' pay and conditions, backed strikes that aimed to achieve a living wage, and pressed for the return to democracy that finally came, after 21 years, in 1985.
"Or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press".
Even the divorce announcement couldn't stop the hate campaign waged in the press to demolish my character.
"If a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press.
There are promising efforts already taking place to build a movement around these issues -- efforts to innovate new approaches to organizing low-wage workers; campaigns to press for higher minimum wages and paid sick days; and local initiatives to create good paying green jobs.
The strengthening economy, along with the growing frustration that many are not sharing in it, has elevated wages to the top of presidential campaign debates, while workers and their advocates are already taking direct actions to press for wage increases.
"If you track this month to month," he said, "it looks more like tight labor markets are allowing workers to press for wage gains to keep up with prices that reflect the rising cost of oil".
Frauke Petry, who was the co-representative of the party at that time, crudely criticized the minimum wage system at a press conference in April 2015, calling it "a way to kill jobs," "socialistic romanticism," and "neo-socialist ideology of the SPD" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 2014).
When the economy and the labor market are weak, workers are not in a position to press for wage gains.
