Originally Posted by
BlueScholar
You can't say it's a contractually required pay, when the contract explicitly says that we shouldn't be getting the 5% for at least another 2 quarters. That gesture shouldn't change our negotiating points one bit, but that doesn't mean we can't accept it with a little more grace.
Like I had mentioned in a previous post, management is NOT giving this to be “nice”. Of course I will accept a long overdue 5% raise. However, anyone who doesn’t see this as a coercive move is naive.