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Before the crash my help was paid more than most in my business. I've had the same lead carpenter for 14 years now. He left a few months before the crash saying he was burned out. 5 months later he returned hat in hand and I gladly took him back.
In short yes, pay scales are determined by the amount of work available. And bonuses are abundant during good times.
Great but do you see the point I was making? Small business owners tend to always share the pain and prosperity with their workers, as it should be, but when you start talking about big outfits the sense of shared destinies is not there, sacrifice is often demanded but hardly ever rewarded and all too often prosperity is distributed among the board and stockholders but never really seems to trickle down. You are not like Walmart or some other megacorp who has an impersonal and often dictatorial relationship with it's employees, in that kind of situation it is proper to complain about wage concessions.
It's not demanded. It's offered and if they don't like it, they can walk and someone else moves into that position.
You may see downward pressure on wages during bad times with no upward tendency of wages during good times to be alright but overall it has not been a good thing for America. Some days you people make so sad that you have traded concern for the working man for this silly act and talk like a billionaire and maybe become a billionaire act.