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I wish I could make $82k a year and demand 5% raises for non-skilled labor

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People its called contract negotiations. Their contracts were up.

BART offered a 1% raise and a new 5% employee contribution to their pensions. Not getting into the debate of public pensions, but I doubt ANYONE hear would be pleased with their bosses coming and asking them to take a ~4-5%(more counting inflation) pay cut. That is effectively what they were offered.

No one on here could say they would be happy with losing 5%+ of their current spending power.
 
People it is called contract negotiations. BART employees had their contracts reach their term of years. In contract negotiations, each side comes in low or high depending on who they represent. That is HOW contract negotiations work.

BART low balled the employees by offering a contract that LOWERED the employees spending power. They were offered a 1% raise but at the same time were asked to contribute 5% of their paychecks to their pensions. That is effectively a 5% paycut.

So BART employees responded with a abusrdly high pay raise of like 23% spread over 3 years and a .05% contribution to their retirement plans. Then when their demands weren't met they went on strike. The union knows they aren't going to get 23% over three years or .05% contributions. Just like BART knows they aren't going to get away with 1% raises and having employees contribute 5% to their pensions.
 
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