I've worked for several employers in past thirty four years counting my military service and it always seems that there is a top out limit on pay. Once I reached it, there was no more growth financially. Not even to compensate for rising cost of living. So I enroll in classes and use a lot of my off time to get a better education to make myself a more valuable employee and still no raises or promotions. Most recently I've had to take a class just to ensure I keep pay I already have because of pay reduction threats. A lot of my coworkers have already gotten a large drop in pay. What makes it so bad is, corporation as a whole are making Hugh profits and factory I work in is generating a large amount of those profits.

Well, they have a big reason to complain and they all do. But what good does it do? It does no good at all, because they are mostly complaining among themselves and not to upper management. They fear that they will lose their jobs if they do try a little constructive complaining. Singlely there jobs will be threatened, but collectively they might do some good. But then that will probably be considered a union by corporation if they, or I should say we, united for purpose of protecting our present pay.

So what else could a group of employees do? Nothing, that I can think of. For one thing it will be like pulling teeth to get all employees to stand against corporation. Some of employees just simply walked out at first threat. Some have quit after their pay was cut. Most all of them fear that corporation will close doors to our place of work and move whole thing somewhere else. As for myself I'll rather that they would close up and move before dropping my pay. Most like me have resumed their education to protect their pay. But even though we have done that we are still at mercy of our managers and could possibly still be facing a pay cut. It's already been stated by management and management usually follows through with what they say.

I like my job, people I work with, and bosses aren't bad to work for either. So I'll continue working there in spite of threats as long as they'll have me. I'll pray and hope that God will see me through it all and help me to at least maintain my level of pay if not an increase in pay.