This thread is about employees demanding better wages, but the vast majority of their employees never say anything and they never would say anything.
I can acknowledge that, and that's fine. My comments are targeted to specific employees trying to play boss, and the unions trying to force the hand of the company to pay what they want. Employment is not supposed to work that way.
They are subjected to the same things we've all been subjected to as base level employees. Being asked to cover for other employees or every other employee, preventing us from having benefits and being eligible for a promotion.
That is base level employment though, you've got to start somewhere. The idea though isn't to bring pay and benefits to an inflated value but rather to encourage the employees to increase theirs.
We're not going to stop corporations from treating their employees that way, which is why we should require them to provide health care to any employee who makes the majority of their income in that job. I also think we should have a minimum wage increase for employees depending on that job to pay their bills or for those who have children.
Negative. There is no reason to give the government any more authority than it has asserted for itself, there is already too much intervention in the market.
Again, this thread is about employees speaking up for themselves, but that's pretty rare.
This thread is about employees demanding more value than they command, that isn't "speaking up" for oneself, that is the definition of feeling entitled to that which hasn't been earned. I've paid my dues, and I will have to pay more, the difference is I take what is offered happily and look up.
Has anyone in this thread ever gone on strike?
Not me, and I never will.
Has anyone posting here picketed their employer?
I'll tell you this, I'd like to turn my ideas into reality and become an employer, I would rather fire an employee than have them assert my risk should be their overall reward.
Have you tried to start a union?
See above, and I would shutter a company before I would allow a union to be formed.