1.   Besides a productivity-linked wage increase, the proposals include a pension increase, more trainee jobs and more opportunities for older employees to work a shorter workweek.

2.   He took a trainee job with a Korean oil company and, in only a few years, his salary more than doubled.

3.   Then he took a trainee job at J.P. Morgan and enjoyed working on deals like the sale of the Baltimore Orioles.

4.   Christine Bergmann, the minister for youth matters, said the Tuesday the government may step up a federally funded program to find trainee jobs for young Germans.

5.   He said he expects the leaders to agree on an industry guarantee to offer trainee jobs to young people, but he gave no specifics.

6.   Schroeder won an industry promise to try to offer trainee jobs to all young Germans who want them this year.

7.   Most of them had fled low-paying trainee jobs they are bound to by contract.