Companies will pay their employees what they must and that is all. If they are not forced under a threat of a work stoppage they will only pay what they absolutely have to. It is business 101.
In 1985 (just before Reagans "great American expansion" which gave tax breaks to corporations that expanded their business to overseas operations) I was making 13.50 an hour. In 1988 i was making 15.00 an hour and when I retired in 1995 i was making 22 dollars an hour. People today making 13.50 an hour think they have a good job. I was making that 30 years ago. the demise of labor unions has not only affected union workers but non union workers as well. i remember the republicans always saying that if they could just get rid of the unions the companies could pay their employees better. Well, they got rid of the unions and how are the American workers doing?

Companies will pay their employees what they must and that is all. If they are not forced under a threat of a work stoppage they will only pay what they absolutely have to. It is business 101.
In 1985 (just before Reagans "great American expansion" which gave tax breaks to corporations that expanded their business to overseas operations) I was making 13.50 an hour. In 1988 i was making 15.00 an hour and when I retired in 1995 i was making 22 dollars an hour. People today making 13.50 an hour think they have a good job. I was making that 30 years ago. the demise of labor unions has not only affected union workers but non union workers as well. i remember the republicans always saying that if they could just get rid of the unions the companies could pay their employees better. Well, they got rid of the unions and how are the American workers doing?

My job went overseas in 1985. I was working in a factory in Illinois and almost all the factories in my town reduced their workforce by 60% by outsourcing. At that time we were sending jobs to france. Eventually American corporations kept looking for cheaper and cheaper workers and wound up in China. This happened in 1985. I was called back to work at a factory in Ohio at the end of 1988 and worked there until 1995 until I retired. I watched people lose everything. Men committed suicide. All of this was done due to the"Great American Expansion. Since then we have had democratic presidents and republican presidents and neither have done a thing about it.

You are in a state of denial with that question. The GOP began the destruction of the middle class with Reagan's "tax cuts for job creators" and has continued ever since, the GOP's failed economic theories costing the Fed over 13 Trillion Dollars in lost tax revenues, which instead, went into the pockets, and was used to maximize the investments of the top 2%, not job creation for Americans. Today, the top 2% now own almost 50% of all the wealth of America, compared to only 8% of everything back in 1969.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/12/1335556/-The-great-Republican-tax-cut-

All anyone has to do is look at what the GOP is against, beginning with minimum wage, equal wages for equal work, paid family leave, Why not compare the increases in the income of the rich to the increases or loss of income of the 98% after factoring in inflation. Really now, just what Party is attacking the middle and well paid working classes? What party is anti union, and pro big business, anti g****l w*****g legislation in outright denial, all because it all brings in more campaign contributions?