Trumping an Important Message?

I am retired from the engineering profession for 7 years now. The state of things has not really changed one way or the other from what it has been for at least 20 years. Management wants to attract people into the engineering profession because without engineers they dont have solutions to their technical problems; however, management's role is strictly considered (by them, even if they were trained as engineers) to be cost containment/cost minimization. As a result, they will hire engineers/scientists into a company at an inflated wage, but not properly reward them as years go by, even if the engineer's individual contributions to the corporate profitability are immense. So, the management speaks with a "forked tongue", and I think students are not as gullible as we once were.

As I see it, this situation cannot be rectified unless and until an engineer gets some real clout against management in corporations. This will only happen when the engineer either obtains a contract via legal representation, OR by the wholesale unionization of engineers.

Personally, I would never advise anyone to enter the engineering profession if they were significantly interested in making financial gain; only if they are interested in doing the science part which is joyous to me and others.