"The ___ of sin . . . "

Usage examples of wages.

Under Walton, Wal-Mart developed a reputation within retailing as a great place to work even as it continued to pay lower wages than did its competitors.

Even though I suspected from the start that the mathematics of wages and rents were working against me, I made a mighty effort to succeed.

Sure, almost any old union would boost wages and straighten out some backbones here, but I know that even the most energetic and democratic unions bear careful watching by their members.

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 makes it illegal to punish people for revealing their wages to one another, but the practice is likely to persist until rooted out by lawsuits, company by company.

The consequences of this routine surrender go beyond the issues of wages and poverty.

On the contrary, I was amazed and sometimes saddened by the pride people took in jobs that rewarded them so meagerly, either in wages or in recognition.

Indeed, it is probably impossible for the private sector to provide everyone with an adequate standard of living through wages, or even wages plus benefits, alone: too much of what we need, such as reliable child care, is just too expensive, even for middle-class families.

Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation.

Adjusted for inflation, the wages paid by Wal-Mart have declined by about 35 percent since 1970, about in line with the decline in the real value of the minimum wage over this period.

Walton never ceased being margin-obsessed or chintzy, in the sense of continuing to pay the lowest possible hourly wages to store workers.

The experts from Bentonville teach store managers to meet individually with every employee who might sympathize with the union and its pledges to improve wages, benefits, and work rules.

The UFCW was left with two basic choices: negotiate supermarket industry wages and benefits down to Wal-Mart levels, or take on the task of trying to force Bentonville to pay its employees up to union standards.

Safeway and the others were trying to hold the line on wages and benefits in anticipation of full-on competition with Wal-Mart.

Often, these lower production costs result in the same problems that Wal-Mart is criticized for in the United States: penurious wages and benefits, cruelly long hours, and poor working conditions.

To keep wages low and workers handy, companies have employees sleep in corporate dormitories and eat in factory-run canteens.