You hear this a lot in nursing too when people talk about how nursing assistants should make more. “But that’s what I make and I have more education and am responsible for more!” Correct, your pay should rise as well.
And the solution to this is always to raise minimum wage, because skilled labor pay must be higher than unskilled labor pay. If minimum wage goes up, other wages must also go up in order to attract and keep workers in more demanding jobs. Raising minimum wage fixes wages across the board.
That sounds more like an argument for journalists being better compensated too, rather than saying the software engineers should be happy with less.
You hear this a lot in nursing too when people talk about how nursing assistants should make more. “But that’s what I make and I have more education and am responsible for more!” Correct, your pay should rise as well.
The rich have gotten us so good at turning on each other… 🙁
And the solution to this is always to raise minimum wage, because skilled labor pay must be higher than unskilled labor pay. If minimum wage goes up, other wages must also go up in order to attract and keep workers in more demanding jobs. Raising minimum wage fixes wages across the board.
someone else’s shit sandwich doesn’t make mine taste any better.
The journalists should join them if they’re also unhappy.
Are sympathy strikes permitted in the US?
They are here and it rules!
It’s not. There wasn’t an argument. The question was “why are they striking?”
The article says why they want to strike, if you read it…