Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] pay " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 2 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 3 | Whitehall faces the prospect of a new ‘ brain drain' following a 6.5 per cent pay increase for senior civil servants , union leaders said . |
| 4 | Defending the increasingly indefensible policy of a 5 per cent pay norm led the government into growing difficulties . |
| 5 | The workforce at France 's most successful car manufacturer has rejected an earlier management offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise and , in the face of what is widely seen here as management intransigence , the government reluctantly got involved in the private sector dispute yesterday evening , announcing that it would appoint an official conciliator . |
| 6 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 7 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 8 | On Jan. 4 miners ' leaders had called for a temporary halt to the march , after an offer by Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut to hold talks , but two days later the march was resumed after union leaders had rejected a government offer of a 250 per cent pay rise . |
| 9 | The latest reduction , agreed after several days of wildcat strikes beginning on April 27 and involving some 250,000 employees , averted the prospect of a national strike in support also of an 8.5 per cent pay rise . |
| 10 | NALGO is claiming national support for its day of action last Thursday protesting against the 1.5 per cent pay squeeze and job cuts . |
| 11 | The workers at Hawick , Galashiels , Earlston , Berwick and Arbroath voted 732 to 670 against a 4 per cent pay rise plus an extra day 's holiday by 732 votes to 670 . |
| 12 | They are joining 19,000 ambulance crew members protesting against a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 13 | The union settled , in the face of the Government 's public criticisms , for a fifteen per cent pay rise . |
| 14 | The council of the Association of University Teachers backed a claim drawn up by the union 's executive for a 27 per cent pay rise from next April . |
| 15 | The pilots resigned six weeks ago when the airlines refused a demand by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots for direct negotiations over their claim for a 29.5 per cent pay rise . |
| 16 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |
| 17 | Affecting the coal , oil , gas , petrochemical and metallurgical industries and the railways , it featured a package of incentives including a 5 per cent pay rise for workers for each percentage point by which monthly output in their enterprise exceeded average output in January-April 1991 , and the right of enterprises to sell for their own profit 10 per cent of their output on the domestic market . |
| 18 | It formed part of a package including a 6 per cent pay rise over one year beginning on June 1 , supplemented by one-off payments to cover April and May , and it was agreed that 18 per cent of the workers in a plant would be allowed to volunteer to work a 40-hour week in the interests of flexibility . |
| 19 | The measure was primarily designed to raise an additional US$500,000,000 to finance pay increases for 260,000 teachers ( on strike for over a month for an 800 per cent pay rise ) and 85,000 health workers ( on strike for three months for a minimum wage increase of 200 per cent ) . |
| 20 | These resulted in a 71 per cent pay award to the metallurgical workers at the end of November , backdated to September and valid until March 1990 . |
| 21 | The government agreed to a 100 per cent pay increase , to meet demands for job security , to index wages to inflation , to set up an inquiry into the current salaries of health workers and teachers , to reinstate all workers dismissed since March , and to involve the unions in revising the Civil Service Law . |
| 22 | The employers , i.e. the federal government , Länder ( states ) and local government , then agreed to a 5.4 per cent pay increase plus extra payments to the lower paid . |
| 23 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 24 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 25 | The crews want an increase on a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 26 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
| 27 | On the weekend of March 16-17 after a week of strikes the public-sector trade union ÖTV reached agreement with the federal government on a 6 per cent pay increase to be backdated to Jan. 1 , 1991 . |
| 28 | Leaders of ambulance crews argue that their industrial action , in protest at a 6.5 per cent pay offer , has exposed the lack of personnel which may have been responsible for the deaths . |