wage demands
Salary increase calls
Wage demands are requests or requirements for pay increases, typically made by workers or unions during labor negotiations.
The phrase often appears in news coverage of strikes or contract disputes: The company rejected the union's wage demands.
The plural form is standard even when referring to a single negotiating position.
- pay raiseHigher compensation rate
- pay equityEqual pay for equal work
- inflationSustained price level increase
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- worker solidarityMutual support among employees
shop floor · cost of living · bread and butter · arbitration · strike action · union representation · labor standards · mediation · gender pay gap · purchasing power · employment contracts · overtime regulations · labor disputes · fair labor practices · income inequality · bargaining table · government intervention · consumer price index
- labor relationslabor relations, labor disputes, collective agreement, union elections, bargaining
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, labor union, union shops
- transferstransfer, money transfer, bank transfer, wire transfer, fund transfer
- inflationinflation, CPI, price hikes, hyperinflation, cost-push inflation
- labor disputesstrikes, strike, labor strike, walkout, walkouts
wage demandspay cuts
Lowered employee compensation
wage freezes · pay freezes · wage suppression · austerity measures · layoffs
wage demandsmerit increases
Raises based on achievement
profit sharing · cost-of-living adjustments · bonuses · performance bonuses
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