I’m not really grasping this… as in they want no minimum wage?
I don’t see the problem here, say minimum wage is 30 an hour (crazy excessive hypothetical one), The union can just as easilly negotiate that Much easier safer jobs are 30/hr, which means our guys aren’t going to take a cent under 50/hr.
Or, because minimum wage is now $30, most of the people working at the non-unionized corporate plant say “but do we really need a union, it’s $30/hr”.
It relieves unionization pressure, and I don’t see how it couldn’t not do so.
You’d have to operate under some really weird mental model of how sociology works to believe that this isn’t the case.
I’m not a big union proponent, I and my family have only ever had bad experiences with them. I do not know if they really are ambivalent on minimum wage, I will take poVoq’s word for it. But I can certainly understand how, if they have intelligent leaders, they might be less than enthusiastic about it.
Uhmm, while I don’t fully agree with the original comment, I would like to point out that most unions are also anti-minimum wage.
In general minimum wage does little good and is only worth it if the situation is so bad that unions can not negotiate at all.
I’m not really grasping this… as in they want no minimum wage?
I don’t see the problem here, say minimum wage is 30 an hour (crazy excessive hypothetical one), The union can just as easilly negotiate that Much easier safer jobs are 30/hr, which means our guys aren’t going to take a cent under 50/hr.
Or, because minimum wage is now $30, most of the people working at the non-unionized corporate plant say “but do we really need a union, it’s $30/hr”.
It relieves unionization pressure, and I don’t see how it couldn’t not do so.
You’d have to operate under some really weird mental model of how sociology works to believe that this isn’t the case.
I’m not a big union proponent, I and my family have only ever had bad experiences with them. I do not know if they really are ambivalent on minimum wage, I will take poVoq’s word for it. But I can certainly understand how, if they have intelligent leaders, they might be less than enthusiastic about it.