How often does someone walk in, get full-time and make top rate all within 4 years? Secondly, my gripe is not with the pay of new hires being equal to mine. It's the failure of our union to negotiate rates that keep up with inflation and minimum wage. Tenured part-timers in many areas have consistently been chased down by minimum wage. If you want to start new hires @ 30 and boost everyone up, sounds good to me. All I know is the company pays people here $10 more than the union negotiated. The company pays new full-timers less. It's all wrong.