Maximum wage of jobs and a guaranteed minimum income for the poorest workers. In his campaign for the French presidency in 2012, Jean-Luc Mélenchon argued in favour of a tax rate of 100% on incomes over €360,000. In the United Kingdom until 1901, individual clubs had set their own wage policies. That year, the Football League ratified a maximum weekly wage for footballers of £4 ("2012: £"). This severely limited the ability of the best players in the country to forgo the need to take paid employment outside of football and, this in turn, led to the formation of The Players' Union
Ludo Martens Ludo Martens Ludo Martens (12 March 1946 – 5 June 2011) was a Belgian Communist political activist who also produced several works on the political history of Central Africa and the Soviet Union. In 1968 Martens founded the group "Alle macht aan de arbeiders" ("All Power to the Workers"), which in 1979 became the Workers' Party of Belgium. He also served as chairman of the Workers' Party. Martens was the last foreigner to meet North Korean President Kim Il Sung prior to his death on 8 July 1994. According to a press release by the Workers' Party, Martens died on