"Can I please have a raise Mr. Bossman? I think 50 cents an hour raise after working here five years would be kind of nice."

Or would you rather hear this?


"Ok, under our collective bargaining tenative agreement, we hashed out a whole package deal where we covered employee wages, healthcare, overtime, reporting pay, holiday pay and vacations, COLA, pension contributions, 401k's, vesting, seniority, pay scales, dental, vision, long term disability, short term disability, tooling allowance, uniform allowance, expense travel...........

It's a wonder union members fair better than their non-union counterparts historically and continue to do so. Go for the enchilada, not the nickel and dime raises bread crumbs you beg to your boss and hope he notices your total loyalty.