Business for Shared Prosperity is a network of business owners, execs and investors who speak out on issues like fair taxation, a fair minimum wage and financial reform.
The second was a show of deference to Hiroshi Okuda, Toyota's chairman, who heads the Keidanren, a powerful business federation, which stands for company management and is a vocal advocate of both lower labour costs and wage-bargaining reform.
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It also wants to promote regional wage differentials and to reform labour law more generally.
His proposals made sense: a commission on voting rights, protection of military families gay and straight, gun control measures, equal pay for equal work, increased minimum wage, and immigration reform.
The government says it will also press for reform of the wage-bargaining system in the next six months.
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The unabashed liberal fought for civil rights, environmental causes, farmers, hikes in the minimum wage and health-care reform.
Moreover, most income from executive stock options is now reported as W-2 wage income, while before tax reform it was reported as capital gains when exercised.
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The unions, supported by former cabinet ministers, are fighting a proposal to replace collective wage agreements with company-level ones, a reform that would make it easier to fire workers.
"The situation in Greece has taken a turn for the worse, with the economy increasingly adjusting through recession and related wage-price channels, rather than through structural reform-driven increases in productivity".
In the Senate early in the morning, late at night, Ted Kennedy fought and cut deals for minimum wage increases, health care, education, immigration reform, and help for the poor, the elderly and the sick.
Testimony from the hearing's two remaining witnesses focused on the economic impact of immigration reform, and whether it would damage job and wage prospects for citizens on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
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He asked Congress to send him legislation to reform immigration, combat climate change, increase the minimum wage, and reduce gun violence.
Italy, unable to reform, has made a virtue of a low-wage, low-productivity economy, with little social mobility, a choice given respectability by the preaching of a complacently anti-capitalist Church.
He must persuade ordinary Greeks, battered by austerity, to accept cuts to the minimum wage, pensions and spending, as well as a programme of structural reform that has no parallel in modern Greek history.
What may be left by the wayside until after the election - a budget blueprint, appropriations to run the government, immigration reform and border security, control of lobbyists, a minimum wage increase and health for senior citizens who missed a deadline for choosing a Medicare prescription plan.
Though voters still rank the deficit, wage stagnation and the budget among their chief concerns, the popular hunger for reform may be shrinking.
And, in a message on Twitter, David Cameron hailed "a big day for welfare reform as we pilot a cap on benefits equal to the average wage" - adding "amazingly Labour oppose it".
The rebels agreed to back the measure only after the government promised to ask a new commission on health and pension reform to extend its recommendations to ways of bringing down non-wage labour costs.
They also think the so-called "troika" - the European Commission, ECB and the IMF - should be looking for imaginative ways to help encourage structural reform and economic growth at the same time - for example, through temporary wage subsidies for new businesses, or programmes to support lending to SMEs.
This means that Ms Merkel will struggle to implement the main planks of her proposed reform programme: a flat-fee health-care premium to lower non-wage labour costs, further labour-market reforms, such as loosening Germany's strict protection against dismissal, and radical tax reform.
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