wage standard
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwageandstandard
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wage
noun[S]
uk/weɪdʒ/us/weɪdʒ/
a particular amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a ...
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standard
noun
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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(Definition ofwageandstandardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It employs the device of encouraging collective bargaining and trade association agreements (the latter subject to public approval), and makes wages thus arrived at prima facie the fairwagestandard.
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Other people than the miners have had theirwagestandardreduced.
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We have always stood for a properwagestandardon the land.
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Much of the prosperity of the nation will depend on the maintenance of a goodwagestandard.
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The first charge on industry should be the development and the creation of a livingwagestandard.
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It follows that no public authority dare adopt awagestandardunless that standard is undoubtedly related to the conditions of all its other employés.
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I represent a constituency where thewagestandard, generally speaking, has been far too low for many years.
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There have been times in the mining industry when it has not been possible to get every employer to observe thewagestandard.
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There is this danger in laying down a minimumwagestandard; that it tends to become the maximum wage.
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The aggregate returns are being brought against the workmen's wages, and the workmen's generalwagestandardhas.
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I believe that if you can raise the realwagestandardof the people, you will so increase their general prosperity that industry will become more efficient.
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We must preserve to ourselves in the last instance the right to defend thewagestandardand conditions of our men by a withdrawal of labour if necessary.
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In dealing with the shipbuilding industry the other week, we endeavoured to secure better conditions, and in the engineering trades we tried to secure a reasonablewagestandard.
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I want to make this point, without anticipating any decision which may be achieved by this joint conference; you cannot grade wages upon a low and uncertainwagestandard.
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Their fear was that the direct payment of family allowances would embarrass negotiations for the settlement of wages, and would weaken the power to exact a properwagestandard.
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You can only put that matter night and maintain ourwagestandardhere by doing something to protect our industries and to keep out the more cheaply, manufac- tured goods.
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They gave their lives to preserve democracy, and the rights that have been hardly won to preserve our relatively decent wage standards and hours.
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Will it apply to young miners whose wages have been low because they have not come up to man's age for wage standards?
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How are wage standards and living standards to be built up?
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There will then be a tendency to reduce costs to hold traffic, and we know what that tendency usually means in relation to wage standards.
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