We don't hear the word "concession" much anymore.
For the past forty years that word came up at every wage and benefit negotiation fought over with corporate America. We all heard the same argument, that the company could never compete without concessions from the hourly workers, and failure to accept a smaller salary meant outsourcing, layoffs, or even total failure of the business.
Though the company negotiators assured us those cuts would go to the very top, we continued to see downsizing and outsourced jobs while the executives saw bigger and bigger pay scales and stashed the savings from workers concessions in offshore tax havens and multi vacation mansions.
Now the new catch phrase they're throwing at us is "shared sacrifice" where hourly workers will have to give up even more if the wealthy promise on their dead mothers' graves that they will also suffer right along with us.
NO! A thousand times, NO!
As I see it, now it's their turn to take a "concession". We have no more left to give.
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