Very much so. An activist wanted 15% for my friend's union to make up for previous losses, but people wanted at least 10% per year as a solid effort, or at least some non-cash substitutes such as more days off.

Instead, they were told 3% per year, the retirees get worse care, and we'll help the pregnant women go on maternity leave with worse leave options than white collar employees in the same agency.

The real problem is that nobody wants to hike taxes to pay for these inflation matching raises, some bargaining groups have better PR than others, others better negotiators, and the old trick of "we'll make it up to you in retirement" doesn't work anymore. So they just make the workers eat a de facto pay cut while wondering "why do we have a recruitment problem?"