I work at a major pharmaceutical company as a manufacturing operator in the liquids division. There, it is nearly impossible to move up in pay due to the skill system.
Basically every room you know how to operate is a skill, and some machines add a lesser skill. Two A skills is a b skill, three b skills is a c skill, and three c skills let's you move up.
Here's the problem, based on where you work it's very hard to get those skills. I can only move up one level out of 12. People in the solid medicine devision move up 6 levels. Dispensary is one. Washbay has none.
I feel so sorry for the guy in washbay, he has the hardest job and he can't get out of that position because nobody else wants that skill.
They also keep giving shit to a coworker. He's on a different skill system because he was there yonks ago when his old company was eaten by this one. He's level 2.5 and they keep badgering him to learn the worst room in liquids. But that's only one c skill and he needs three more to move up, he also knows there's no other skills for him to learn.
Due to this, we are negotiating the base rate of pay to be large. We want a minimum of 5 5 5 percent increases over a three year deal. The company is arguing for 5 4 4.
Let them keep it. I want to strike, because the last site manager that let it get to this point was fired.
Stay your ground Marcus, cos we gonna fuck you up.