We would have needed an 8% increase this year to match how far behind increases are compared to SSA COLA over the last 5 years.
If it feels likes like you are making less, it’s because you are.
Guess we should all work 5.68% less hours to keep up with deflated salaries.
People generally don't unionize when they feel they are treated fairly. When they see a handful of people getting richer and richer while their situations don't improve -- and often get worse, including less safe -- they only have so many options.
@c9
Union folk will be laughing all the way to the bank. Remember during those Dark Years of 2008-2011with NO RAISES? I looked it up and the union got raises that whole time. Seems if we went union we would have better pay and possibly better protection from layoff. A union guy from Cottage Grove told me all sorts of people are union including nurses, office workers, even college professors. Up to 27% of college faculty are now union as of 2024, according to Forbes. So, if a college professor went union, he has to have a PHD, I would imagine. They don't just give those away. People say they don't need a union to negotiate for them, yet here we are crying about 2%. How is your non-union-self doing there, c9? Let's organize!
@bk well, damn, if those useless mo--ns protected by the union got 3.5%, those of us who learned to read deserve at least that.
Union got 3.5%. Still not keeping up with inflation. They are never going to give it up as long as people keep taking it. They increased the minimum wage by law, maybe they can make a law that the company has to maintain a percent that coincides with the CEOs salary. While we wait for that to happen I am gonna hit this b#ng one more time, cuz I am high.
Just for calibration, one of my kids just got a 3% raise (major medical device co.) and another kid just got a 2.5% raise (EdTech company). Meets expectations, etc., so these were the normal raises. 2 different industries. Sounds like this might be the norm.
Europe is below 1%.