They don’t employ all 150,000 union members and a 40% raise is on average likely to be less than 40,000 but the points are still the same. Reducing the CEO’s sa

They don’t employ all 150,000 union members and a 40% raise is on average likely to be less than 40,000 but the points are still the same. Reducing the CEO’s salary to give the workers a raise of more than a few cents would require the CEO to pay hundreds of millions of dollars. So it has to come from profits or costs have to go up. This[0] statement from Ford does align with what you are saying, I clearly misread the 150 billion number which was revenue. However they claim to have over 30 billion in cash it looks like. 2 billion of that could cover $40,000 raises for up to 50,000 employees for the next 15 years. Even splitting that by raising costs by some fraction of a percentage, taking out half a billion from the cash and then 1 billion from the profits is more mathematically sound than just saying the CEO should take a cut to cover the costs of the raise. [0]: https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America/US/2023/02/02/People,%20Plan,%20Products%20Position%20Ford%20Well%20for%20'Pivotal'%202023%20Despite%20Effect%20of%20Volume%20Shortfall%20on%20Q4,%20Full-Year%202022%20Results.pdf https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...