You mention Safeway employees getting a penny an hour raise. You then call a Safeway deli guy ‘skilled labor’.
He’s not.
I’m skilled labor. I do Big Data computer development, 145 million records a shot for one process alone. I got 4% raise and 8% bonus last year. Look to do the same this year.
Sorry, but I said the Deli guy, at a local market, not Safeway, WAS a skilled worker before he went to work at Deli.
My point was that a skilled person, he should be worth decent pay even at Deli.