That people working at the MW have been punished by price-rises and have recieved no increase in MW-salary to compensate.
Your lack of knowledge of all things-economic is nothing short of astonishing.
Economics is about scarcity of goods, services, commodities and resources and how they are distributed. There is no law, theorem or corollary in the Laws of Economics that says wages must be increased to compensate for rising prices.
In fact, the laws, theorems and corollaries say just the opposite,
except in one instance.
When Monetary Inflation exists, prices rise, and prices includes wages which also rise, meaning people are paid more than whatever the minimum wage is. However, Monetary Inflation is practically non-existent in your economy.
To insist that wages rise due to Cost-push Inflation is sheer tautology.
You elected people who you knew were going to raise the State/county/local sales tax or you sat by idly twiddling your thumbs while your elected officials raised your State/county/local sales tax and now you're going to go to your employer and throw a hissy-fit demanding that you get paid more to off-set the increase in sales taxes?
That's absurd.
In the case of Demand-pull Inflation, rising prices are part of the laws, theorems and corollaries of Economics and are intended to protect goods, services, commodities and resources from being over-used, over-consumed or depleted.
Increasing wages does not stop Demand-pull Inflation but it does accelerate it.
Because you don't understand Economics, you don't understand that people can compensate.
People can:
1) Stop consuming like the Borg
2) Seek substitutes
3) Increase Supply to offset Demand