TUC urging minimum wage rise
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The TUC general council calls for the minimum wage to increase by 50p an hour from next year.
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Pressure on Brown rises as public service unions plan campaign to fight below-inflation pay offers.
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MPs urged to respect government's pay restraint policy by voting down recommendation for 2.56% rise in salaries in favour of staged award
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WORKERS were urged today to help tackle climate change by taking simple measures such as switching off computers and lights, reducing waste and walking or cycling to the office.   The TUC called on people to "think green" in the workplace to cut energy use.
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The highest earners should pay more tax - with the cash used to reduce child poverty, says trade union leader.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour over two years, but packaged the increase with small business tax cuts and limits on corporate pay that could complicate its path to become law.
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Thousands of workers are not being paid the national minimum wage, a survey by the TUC has found.
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Handing New York workers their first boost in the minimum wage since 1997, the state Senate yesterday overrode Gov. George Pataki&#39;s veto of a bill that will increase the wage by $2 over the next two years.
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15,000 officers expected to gather in London to protest again government's refusal to honour 2.5% pay rise
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Four airline unions yesterday took the government to task over the additional Lm10 tax hike on air travel announced in last week's budget speech, warning that the measure would dent the number of departing ...
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MPs urge private finance initiative bosses to get "street wise" over the amounts they are charged for work.
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Republicans in the State Senate forced through a measure to gradually raise the minimum wage by $2 to $7.15 an hour by January 2007.
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Police get the go-ahead to launch a court challenge to a decision not to backdate their pay rise.
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Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Brendan Barber, speaking on the eve of the labour federation's annual conference, said British unions would strike to win a fair deal over workers' pensions.
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The incoming Democratic-led U.S. Congress intends to give a hand to dishwashers, fast-food cooks and America's other poorest-paid workers by raising the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade.
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RICHMOND, Feb. 15 -- A House committee revived a proposal Thursday to raise the state's minimum wage to $6.50 an hour by sending the measure to the full House, even though Republican leaders have fought the move.
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With little fanfare, Congress yesterday approved the first increase in the federal minimum wage in nearly a decade, voting to boost wages for America's lowest-paid workers from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over the next two years.