So I have about 50 guys that work under me for a multi billion dollar global company traveling the world for weeks at a time working in harsh conditions for very long hours. Pay starts around 50k a year and a select few are making close to 90k. I’m at a site and over hear a bunch of these guys talking about how they aren’t getting a pay raise this year and also didn’t receive one last year. These young men practically give up there home lives for this company. I’ve seen them work long days in -30 degree weather and 120 degree weather outside. I’ve seen them exhausted after spending hours in a room where the ambient temperature was over 180. This company recently bought a large competitor for a little over 1 billion in cash and won’t pay these guys a fair market wage for what they are dealing with. I talked to them and agreed that I would demand 25% increase in pay across the board for them or I would be resigning from my position( I make 350+ a year) they all understand this decision they chose may end with them being fired along with myself and they accept that. I will not stand by and watch this company exploit them any longer. I wish they had approached me sooner before it got to this point so I could have stood up for them sooner but I understand they didn’t know I’ve got nothing to do with pay rates. I’m sharing this because if you’re in upper management and you allow your workforce to be exploited you are as big a part of the problem as the companies that try to pull this crap.