Justifying a Wage Increase in a Challenging Market
A union representative secures a significant wage increase for workers at a traditional broadcasting company, even though the company is struggling financially due to competition from online streaming services. From an economic standpoint, what is one plausible argument the representative could have used to convince the company's management to agree to the wage increase?
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