Organized labor always focused on the better-paid workers.

So even better-paid workers may lose employer contributions.

And better-paid workers - those earning at least $50,000 - account for twice the share of the lost jobs than they did in the 1980's.

Yes, it is true that better-paid workers can afford better clothes.

In general, employers were more likely to provide for their better-paid skilled workers who were less easily replaced than the unskilled labourers.

The legislation did most for the better-paid male workers, an increasingly crucial sector of the workforce both economically and politically.

For better-paid workers and their families, housing conditions were much improved and the diet was better.

Use of some of these methods would even allow us to have better-paid and better-educated child-care workers.

To be sure, better-paid workers in short supply - computer programmers, technicians and the like - have enjoyed significant pay increases recently.

The $35,000 lump-sum payment, for example, is roughly half what some better-paid workers earn in a year.