Sentence examples for years without a raise from inspiring English sources

Legislators typically go years without a raise, Mr. Cullen said, then try for a substantial one.

Many of the hourly workers earned only minimum wage and had gone years without a raise.

"We'll be talking about more than 10 years without a raise by the end of this contract".

Me: But I finally got my pay up to a reasonable number this spring, after nine years without a raise.

The treatment workers were not feeling gratitude when city lawyers appealed the decision of the administrative law judge that would have ended their years without a raise.

He said he planned to encourage a state commission created last year to grant an "appropriate salary increase" for the state's 1,300 judges, who have gone 13 years without a raise.

The 1,050 correction officers in his bargaining unit have been without a contract for three years and without a raise for four .They absolutely deserve a raise," he said.

But some judges argue that as their caseloads have grown, the effect of going years without a pay raise is that they are being paid far less for far more work.

Roque went more than two years without a promised raise, he said.

Labor negotiations between the two bargaining groups reached a stalemate last summer as union members — having gone five years without a pay raise — pushed for what city officials said would be a 13% salary increase retroactive to November 2012 and an additional 2% salary increase for the next three years.

If they've been working the same job for over two years without a single raise, for example, then they can start to feel like they've reached a dead end.