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"And at the same time, we should help keep jobs available to America's workers by helping small businesses absorb this wage hike."

New Orleans restaurant and hotel associations, along with other business groups, fought the wage hike.

The group also pointed out that the wage hike would act as a counterbalance to the coming state tax increase for gas and diesel.

"Every stabilization program in Argentina for 45 years has failed because of massive wage hikes," he said.

The union members rejected the employers' offer of a wage hike of $82 over three years, he said.

Some believe it was a bad time to demand a wage hike, because the economy hadn't yet fully recovered from the downturn.

The last minimum wage hike (to $5.15 in 1996) had little effect: No jobs were lost, and the poverty rate remained unchanged.

A recent minimum wage hike was a factor in the layoffs.

Their phone survey couldn't even accurately track the expected price shifts after a wage hike.

The union is asking for a substantial wage hike for its members.