#5 is all you need to know.
Well, after all, they want their share of the increased “profits” that the evil management folks are placing on consumers. It’s only fair right? For some reason they apparently never think of overhead. Just the mansions that the board of directors live in. Been on both side of the fence in the unions and managing union employees. Some of the folks get it. Others, not so much. Management/admin is ALWAYS trying to screw them over. Be happy you have a job during this “recovery”.
The short answer to all of is, if you really believe that a minimum wage creates good results then you should raise it to TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AN HOUR OR MORE. After all, if it really works then the higher the figure the better, it’s just plain common sense. Strangely no one seems to be suggesting a minimum wage high enough to really do some good, almost as if they know deep down that the minimum wage is just a con job.
In reality raising the minimum wage accomplishes about as much as you can accomplish by dipping water with a bucket to try to create high and low places in the surface of a millpond. All you can do is create some small ripples that soon subside and everything returns to its natural state.