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Switzerland has no\r\nstatutory minimum salary, though minimum standards exist in most trades and\r\nprofessions. Rechsteiner said his confederation was worried about the\r\ncontinuous loss of purchasing power of the low and average wage earners, and\r\nthe widening income gap with the rich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>English: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.swissinfo.ch\u002Feng\u002Fpolitics\u002FTrade_unions_target_widening_income_gap.html?cid=29170812\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.swissinfo.ch\u002Feng\u002Fpolitics\u002FTrade_unions_target_widening_income_gap\r\n...\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cbr\u002F>\r\nvia   \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.labourstart.org\u002Fcgi-bin\u002Fshow_news.pl?country=Switzerland\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.labourstart.org\u002Fcgi-bin\u002Fshow_news.pl?country=Switzerland\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"discreet\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u003Cem>\u003Cspan class=\"teaserText\">This\r\narticle was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims\r\nto facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support\r\nthe work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. \u003C\u002Fspan>For more \r\ninformation, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam \r\nInstitute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\">M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa>. 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