As a firm believer in the free enterprise system, I can find no fault on the part of any worker who tries to maximize the rewards for their labor. In a truly competive system, the business owner as well as his suppliers are trying to maximize profits and the customer is attempting to get the best value possible for their purchase, and there is no reason the worker should not leverage any advantage they have. So often we conservatives try to assign artificial values on labor based on our perceptions of the social status of the position rather than on supply and demand. If there is a shortage of fast food workers and a surplus of university professors, should not the pay of the former rise and the pay of the latter decline? For a good example of the free enterprise system at it’s best, visit one of the boom towns in the oil patch and see what the fast food franchise is paying for labor.
Pulls out the official "victim" card with my local Organizing for America funded advocate to get my story in the newspaper.