21.   The strike is a battle for a national contract, better wages and a share in royalties.

22.   Police in Lesotho used tear gas and clubs Monday to break up a protest by clothing workers demanding better wages and working conditions.

23.   Between coughs from swirling coal, they wonder when they will see better wages and working conditions.

24.   But union workers said theirs was a legitimate protest for better wages and benefits.

25.   But, he added, little real improvement can be expected until better wages are paid to hard-pressed staff.

26.   Civil servants, whose purchasing power has been eroded by past wage increases below inflation, have rallied on the streets demanding better wages.

27.   Critics say the program allows unscrupulous employers to abuse workers by threatening to have them deported if they demand better wages or conditions.

28.   Garbage collectors demanding better wages marched Tuesday through the capital shouldering the coffin of a colleague who had died during demonstrations here.

29.   He said he would continue seeking better wages and working conditions.

30.   He said with more people turning to estates for jobs it was only proper that they were offered better wages.