1.   First, proposed increases in energy and payroll taxes could have a knock-on effect on wage demands and prices.

2.   The threat of unemployment also moderated the wage demands of those who still held jobs.

3.   This would Decide whether the hard-won economic recovery of the post-IMF phase would be destroyed by rampaging wage demands and raging inflation.

4.   Although unemployment rose last month, this is unlikely to dampen down wage demands.

5.   Workers responded with higher wage demands.

6.   And he has suggested that job insecurity may be inhibiting wage demands.

7.   Besides, some employers say, the union is seeking to defy market forces with its wage demands.

8.   Caracas subway workers scaled back wage demands in a bid to avoid a walkout and reach a new two-year contract.

9.   Calls to keep YPFB is state hands have mixed with once-a-year wage demands, leading to a national strike and near daily street protests.