So you're saying that no one will "give" us what we deserve? If we want to have a better life, we have to demand and insist on improvements? You're saying that if we accept something that is less than what we deserve, we have only ourselves to blame? No one is going to be nice and morally right from the management side. It's not personal, just business?

Sounds like we sure should not roll over and take what they want us to have. If we have not fought in the trenches we probably did not improve our lot in life very much despite what the "numbers" sound like.