with this recession going on, workers shouldn't be expecting fatter pay envelopes
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Immigrant workmen gave up a pay envelope, schoolchildren put in pennies — upward of 150,000 people in all, each name and each donation noted by Pulitzer’s New York World, and almost each one under a dollar.—Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2021 Frustrated by the limits of collective bargaining, Reuther came to complain that bargaining, once so promising, had come to focus on just another nickel in the pay envelope.—
John Gallagher,
Detroit Free Press,
19 Oct. 2019