Price increases trigger off demands for wage increases. 物价上涨引起了增加工资的要求。
The Government had intended to limit the wage increases of all workers to a reasonable amount, but several trade unions got a march on them by receiving very large increases before the new laws came into existence. 政府部门本来打算把所有工人的加薪幅度限制在一个合理的水平上，但是几个行业工会抢先一步，在新的法规出台之前就获得了大幅度的加薪。
