Yeah... no. The reason salaries aren't going up is in the piece but casually dismissed as if it doesn't matter. Instead of "following the money" to people who own companies, why don't we follow the smell of bullshit to the BLS. Unemployment numbers are laughably phony. Of course workers don't have bargaining power - there are millions of people who've been out of work for half a decade desperate for a job and yet not counted as "unemployed".

Also, add in health care cost increases that employers have to pay but that don't show up in salary surveys.