[keith123]

well, a company would probably let you go before paying you more money. companies can take a risk with less qualified workers and pay them your current salary or even less than that. there are a lot of people below you on the pay scale that would love to take your job. however there is no one lower than the minimum wage worker on the pay scale waiting to move up and take that job. if all minimum wage workers decided to strike unless they were paid 1 dollar more per hour, almost every company would pay them the extra dollar. however it wouldn't go on forever as you suggest it might, because at some point the minimum wage workers would actually be paid what they are worth, and companies would not pay more than that.

a better question is what would you do if your company cut your salary by 20%? if all minimum wage jobs were cut by 20%, what would minimum wage workers do?