11.   Cabinet shuffle an attempt to get wages paid.

12.   Half the workforce is unemployed, and those who do have a job often are idle and get wages months late.

13.   Lewis Nickerson, president of Comcare Canada Ltd., said Friday that all through the bargaining process the company agreed the employees should be getting higher wages.

14.   Some factories have totally shut down, with no workers getting wages.

15.   Some crews have remained aboard stranded ships in hopes of getting wages that are months overdue.

16.   Thousands arrive in Managua each day in the hope of finding work, but they get low wages in return for long hours.

17.   They vowed to keep blocking the road until they got their wages and were told how much the factory managers were being paid.