Back in my day, you raised wages when you could demonstrate success in your endeavor to drive more revenue/margin. You got paid less when you drove costs highe

Back in my day, you raised wages when you could demonstrate success in your endeavor to drive more revenue/margin. You got paid less when you drove costs higher. Seems like this is a basic law of economics or something. Monetary rewards for success, monetary losses for failures. Unions have a tendency to be out of sync with this, which means their objectives aren't aligned with managements. Which ... never ... ends well.