| 11. | Workers there have demanded a 10 . 48 percent wage hike.
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| 12. | If the economic condition improves, then we can talk about a wage hike.
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| 13. | The union is seeking annual wage hikes of about 3 percent.
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| 14. | The unions are demanding a 4 . 5 percent wage hike.
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| 15. | The legislature must include the wage hikes in next year's budget.
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| 16. | But all are agreed on demanding a 25 percent wage hike.
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| 17. | When the session ended in July, the wage hike proposal died.
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| 18. | Traditionally, economists have opposed minimum wage hikes on the grounds they cost jobs.
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| 19. | Surveys show the wage hike had minimal impact and jobs were not lost.
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| 20. | The government offered an eight percent wage hike for public employees.
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