@redeagle @trebach@mstdn.social @alan @johnweeks @autumn

Your boss isn't going to fire you for asking for a raise. Whoever originally said that was trying to fool or intimidate people into not asking for a raise. It’s a big pain in the butt to find, hire and train a replacement, so they will avoid that. They might not give you the raise, but they won’t fire you.

The reason why you would want to join with many other workers to ask for a raise is to intimidate your boss. If you all stop working at the same time, that can cost them a lot of money, so they are more likely to just give the raise rather than risk losing even more money by having their workforce walk out on them. However, if conditions are such that they might not lose so much if everyone walks out, then they might not give the raise.

All the rest of the legal stuff is just one side or the other using politicians to try to make laws to shift that basic equation one way the other.