But rather than act now, the council is likely to wait while the wage issue is fought out in next year's election campaign.

The wage issue soon became the central cause.

But wage issues are considered by the union to be the main sticking point in the strike.

"The wage issue cannot be solved even if all the top leaders made it their special task to collect the wages," she wrote.

His specialty in journalism was labour, trade unions and wage issues.

But most Republicans would just as soon be rid of the minimum wage issue and move on to their own legislative priorities.

There was no action on the wage issue in the Senate today, but Democrats insisted that they would keep trying to bring it forward.

Suffolk County is not the only local government wrestling with the wage issue.

The wage issue has served the Democrats well since they raised it two months ago.

But what we're fighting for is not just a wage issue.