It's that the veteran workers got their pay hikes during earlier collective bargaining agreements. Recently, things like the crash in 2008 have caused newer wor

It's that the veteran workers got their pay hikes during earlier collective bargaining agreements. Recently, things like the crash in 2008 have caused newer workers to have different wage growth. They want to bring those wages closer to where they would have been if it had not been for the financial issues caused by the banking crisis and the renegotiated contracts.