Workers set their own wages
The sign on the bulletin board at Seattle's Romac Industries, a pipefitting manufacturer, stood out from the usual mimeographed ads of cars for sale. It was Welder Tim Baker's appeal for a 45¢ hourly raise. "I'm requesting this increase because of inflation," he wrote alongside a color photo of himself busy welding a stainless-steel clamp. "The cost of living keeps going up, and the pay's the same. I work hardjust ask me. P.S.: Girls cost more to take out too."
Baker was not pitching to management, but to his 55...
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