191
'Starvation Wages' at Giant US Corporations Force Workers to Seek Taxpayer-Funded Aid
(www.commondreams.org)
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2026
191 points (100.0% liked)
Work Reform
16950 readers
68 users here now
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It can't be a number. These types will just raise prices so $25 is the new $15. Instead the gap needs to be a percentage including bonuses, stocks, health insurance coverage, ...and any other form of compensation. This would mean even business owners or s corp splitters, loan takers against investments, business worth, etc are all taxed fairly and evenly. It would also mean they can't artificial lower their income for tax reasons or for keeping bottom wages low. Additionally cost of living should be factored in such that the median or average value of goods is evaluated by a non biased third party that changes the undisclosed goods for calculating the CoL just so corporations cannot game this.
Also it should be a federal law that companies have to match inflation in pay raises.
Let's not call it a raise, but rather an adjustment. A raise would imply you got something of greater value than you had. Inflation by definition means the value of what you had is now lower than it was.
Sounds something like what is proposed in the book, Ministry for the Future, create a law that no person can be compensated more than ten times what the lowest paid employee in that same company is compensated.