Instead of relying on the factory's official union, each department elected two workers' representatives who negotiated on their behalf the wage hike that they wished.
The union demands a 7% wage hike.
Thus, wage hikes and promotions are not particularly accessible as rewards in the daily ebbs and flows of organizational life.
Rebalancing means shifting some money from investment to consumption, and the vehicle for this change is a wage hike.
Mr. Berg is calling for an $8 million increase in state funding, a minimum wage hike in New York and the expansion of federal food programs.
