I’m sure your fascist state fanfic nonsense makes you feel like a big man, but it isn’t helpful.

NoWoke speaks the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts. Disagreeing with the truth, because you have a different political orientation, is a waste of energy.

A raise should be, at least somewhat, based on performance. Not a lot of jobs out there that are going to just give you an 8% raise because inflation.
This is the mayor getting out ahead of a contraversy; homelessness not going down but everybody getting an eight percent raise anyway...yeah, nah.