1.   Wages have been frozen and workers laid off.

2.   Any attempt to freeze wages is hopeless.

3.   Because lower revenue is eroding earnings, companies are freezing wages and cutting workers.

4.   Because lower revenue erodes earnings, some companies are freezing wages and reducing their workforce.

5.   Because lower revenue erodes earnings, companies are freezing wages and cutting staff.

6.   A majority of the union members agreed to freeze wages in a tentative agreement last May, Goodyear said.

7.   But as employers freeze wages, they demand more experience.

8.   CGT officials say they want the government to scrap plans to freeze civil service wages next year.

9.   Godfroid tried to get rid of collective bargaining, freeze wages for three years and cut back the working week.

10.   Godfroid tried to get rid of collective bargaining, freeze wages for three years and cut back the workweek.