The union won recognition as well as markedly higher wages.

The strikers managed to win higher wages but weren't able to negotiage a contract with the growers.

The union said it would seek to secure health insurance for those workers and to win higher wages for them.

In the current contract dispute, a strike could win the union higher wages and energize the membership.

As a result, winning higher wages for workfare participants could prove even harder than unionizing them.

As president, he negotiated a series of contracts that won higher wages and improved working conditions and benefits.

And while tainted with corruption, it has won decent wages, benefits and job security for its members.

On July 12, 1904, 18,000 union members in Chicago walked off the job to win higher wages.

He helped turn the local into a beacon for service workers around the nation by winning respectable wages for his members.

But Ford won lower wages for starting workers and longer periods before those workers reach the top of the pay scale.