<story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>The best thing you can do is organize your workplace. Job hopping allows businesses to eat the market at the edges and eventually squeeze those demands out of the labor pool.</text></item><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions.  One of the questions was &amp;#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &amp;#x27;standard&amp;#x27; 2% raise?&amp;#x27;  The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &amp;#x27;Honestly? No&amp;#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&amp;#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market.  Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter.  It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Inflation doesn&amp;#x27;t - fundamentally - change the power balance between employers and employees. Market forces will cause the situation to find a fair market price. If job hopping can&amp;#x27;t get you better wages, then you probably don&amp;#x27;t have enough market power to resist if an employer flat-out cuts your pay.&lt;p&gt;Though to try and prevent misunderstandings - I do think inflation is bad for people who are paid wages. Market forces aren&amp;#x27;t perfect and &amp;quot;market price&amp;quot; is really a band of prices. Inflation pushes all workers to the low end of the band and means if anyone doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like negotiating they will be pushed in to a bad deal by default.</text></comment>
<story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>The best thing you can do is organize your workplace. Job hopping allows businesses to eat the market at the edges and eventually squeeze those demands out of the labor pool.</text></item><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions.  One of the questions was &amp;#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &amp;#x27;standard&amp;#x27; 2% raise?&amp;#x27;  The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &amp;#x27;Honestly? No&amp;#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&amp;#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market.  Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter.  It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kiro</author><text>Look at Sweden. The collectively bargained pay increase was below inflation in all sectors.&lt;p&gt;You should unionize for many reasons but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t trust it as an efficient tool for pay negotiations.</text></comment>