Stockholders bought in.
Workers get paid to work. ...sometimes in December there’s a bonus from profits. If I own a garden I am not going to give all the tomatoes away to the pickers. Are these people nuts?
But if you expand the crop or change to a crop requiring a higher level of care, why wouldn't you expect to pay the pickers more?
In Ford's case, their CEO is publicly admitting that the workers aren't getting raises (despite the increase in the prices of vehicles and executive bonuses), because the workers are bearing Ford's losses in the coal-fueled battery-powered car division.
Companies can do as they wish but Ford admitted publicly that the losses Ford's taking on battery-powered cars is being borne by the workers. Not a good move.
Those workers had nothing to do with the executives' decision to get into the battery-powered car development. Ford wants research and development? Let them fund it via bonds and pay it back as a percentage of each battery-powered car they sell. They can't do that because the market has said that it's not economically feasible. Ford knows this and still wants to play the "Green Energy" scam with the government. Let the politicians and Ford executives pay for it out of their pockets, not the pockets of Ford workers (nor by taxpayers' subsidies).