Young women on strike demanding higher pay slept in the aisles of the F. W. Woolworth's at 34 W. 14th St., March 18, 1937.

You only bring it up as a last resort.

Any raise request should be based on YOU and YOUR performance. If you think you do "okay work," then you need to frame your "okay" accomplishments as "pretty damn swell" instead!

As irrational as it sounds, your employer isn't going to take kindly to a request for a raise based on "But it's not fair that you pay them more!" Which is why you focus on yourself first, and only use it as the nuclear option if they turn you down. And if they get even more pissed and claim you're "not supposed to talk about salaries," you can gently remind them that it's illegal for them to forbid coworkers from disclosing salaries.

But again, start the case with you and your own work. That's the best route to success, as we've written in our guides to asking for raises:

You Need To Ask for a Fucking Raise 

The First Time I Asked for a Raise 

1 Easy Way All Allies Can Help Close the Gender and Racial Pay Gap 

Case in point, teachers should be paid the same as doctors. For elementary schools, they are like daycare workers with extra steps that they often don't get compensated for.

In middle school, they have to deal with behaviors they are never trained on.

And for high school, they deal with middle school problems, plus the egos, potential violence, harder curriculum, keeping kids engaged, helping kids plan for their future (which parents often don't do), teaching about sexual and hygiene health (which parents also don't do).

Gujarat govt. cautions employees on online campaigns for higher pay grade

After a series of protests, online campaigns and agitations by employees, the Gujarat government on Wednesday cautioned nurses, constables and other staff and bus conductors against falling prey to a ‘malicious’ social media campaign seeking a higher pay grade.

Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel alleged that even as the administration was busy tackling the pandemic, “some elements” and “vested…

Most all young people of every generation, the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, had very progressive views about climate change and wanted systemic change for the better; but they have had time to fall into the rhythm of life.

My generation is very liberal because we don’t have time to fall into the rhythm of life on Earth.

By which I mean: getting married, having babies, and paying bills. But I also mean the daily routine of eating and sleeping and just being human.

My generation doesn’t have time to grow complacent with the status quo. The world is literally getting too hot for life. We are out of time.

We are fighting with everything we have to make sure that we do have time to live and love. But if we don’t, we want every precious human life to be treated with fairness and dignity. Because human life has value.

Life has value.

No matter the color of your skin, your religion, or your beliefs. You are deserving of life. And things that infringe the right to a happy life; rasism, sexism, global warming, have got to go.

NEW YORK | Amazon ups hourly wage to $15, will advocate for higher pay

NEW YORK — Amazon, which has faced political and economic pressure to raise pay for thousands of employees, is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month and said it will push for an increase in the federally mandated minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour.

“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want…