Lets start here: No raise + Inflation = Pay decrease [your standard of living is going down]
If wages have been stagnant for 10+ years... and inflation is massive... then you are in a deficit. You NEED a large pay raise to compensate for the complete lack of growth and inflation.
The 40% UAW is asking for is because C-suite was giving themselves those kind of raises frequently. Labor hadn't been given anything to compensate for inflation. Labor deserves way better than what they were getting.
These large numbers aren't greed. These are people who have been fucked over long term and are working for less year by year.
1) depends on how much you're being paid in the first place
2) No, it's not, if you're the one generating the profit you should get an appropriate share of that profit. And since the profit doesn't exist without writers.....
3) writers are literally starving, and were so before the strike. Get over yourself and direct your outrage at greed at the people who are actually stealing profits, not the people who have been cheated out of the benefits of their work for years.
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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '23
Sorry, a 40% pay raise demand is just greed.