Translation of "Löhne drücken" in English

Then there is no need to struggle to depress wages, because forced labourers are available.

Many claimed that the treaty would depress wages, destroy jobs, and ravage the agricultural industry in the US.

Whole industries will choose to recruit seasonal workers in a way that will affect the whole labour market, suppress wages and create conflict.

This also leads to a social rat race and to the evasion of social duties. It affects working times and working conditions and puts pressure on wages.

In other words, competition will not be fair but will entail a levelling-down of social conditions. The dock workers understand well that we are not implementing competition but a terrible mechanism to reduce prices and salaries.

It should be pointed out that the aim of the proposal for a directive they are criticising is none other than to reduce salaries and, therefore, to authorise the recruitment of staff from outside the docks to do the work instead of them.

The European Central Bank pioneered the pressure to squeeze wages, to reduce social spending and to change the insurance system for the benefit of private capital.

Its only aims are those of demolishing the statutes and social protection measures and dragging salaries down in order to make a minority rich, and this to the detriment of people’s safety and the environment.

That is exactly the message which the exploiters are waiting for in order to import cheap labour and use it to 'break' domestic markets and reduce wages.

Tumen’s paper, too, takes on an argument frequently used to oppose admitting refugees: that the newcomers will take locals’ jobs and drive down wages.

In the absence of exchange-rate depreciation, the adjustment process will depress wages and prices, raising the specter of deflation.

At the same time, increasing the amount of “effective labor” – that is, K2 + L – would push wages down.

Since the least skilled workers face morale problems that lower their wages and erode their employability, it makes sense to deliver the mutual gain that is redistributed to them through subsidies that encourage greater self-support and employment.

Indeed, the replacement ratio may exert upwards pressure on wages at the bottom and so make entry to the labour market more difficult (Layard and Nickell, 1991).

But in most cases quoting the miserable wages paid in these countries is above all a way of trying to squeeze wages here.

The more people present themselves in the labour market, the higher the competition for the available jobs and the more easily can wages be squeezed.

Kai: But the struggle is not over. The employer tries to increase profits and to cut wages, we can not rest on our laurels.

They were said to be stupid, uncivilised, apolitical, idiots who put up with anything, and who put pressure on the wages.

It is only then that immigrants cannot be used for dumping wages or for worsening working conditions.

Many urban workers look down on migrants, who are seen as stealing jobs and depressing wages.

The twisted irony is, when you work more hours for less pay, you hurt not only yourself, you hurt the real economy by depressing wages, increasing unemployment and reducing demand and innovation.

It is the whole model that is criticised, because it is based on forcing down wages and working conditions (in Germany for the sake of the competitiveness of its firms, and elsewhere also to capture markets and ward off speculative attacks).

Somehow this comment already sounds like an invitation to lower wages, which cannot be described as a motivation for potential newcomers taking up a job in the railway sector.

From then on it was the Indian artisan and peasant who were ruined by the competition of British industry – but they did not enter the British labour market to depress wages.

It should be noted that such an employment structure enables the owners to depress wages and is a strategy to dis-organise workers.

The industrial crisis provided the employers with a good pretext for cutting wages and revoking the disciplinary and moral concessions which the factory workers had previously forced them to make.