Quotes About Labor demands

unlike economists, the general public believed in a wage lag hypothesis: the idea that wage increases would forever lag behind price increases, and therefore that inflation had a direct and long-term negative impact on living standards. In short, the wage-price spiral offered a geometrical mental image of one's economic status spiraling down for as long as strong aggressive demands of labor kept it happening.

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.