My society increased watchman’s salary and were then pressurised to take it back

In our recent society meeting it was decided to increase our building watchman’s salary from Rs 12k to 16k per month. The watchman then went and boasted about this salary hike to his other watchman friends from neighbouring buildings. Then they also started asking their society for salary increase Then other society secretaries called our society secretary and asked him to take back salary hike as their watchmen were also demanding salary hike. Finally our members then decided to take back salary hike and his salary was rolled back to 12k