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> In jobs I've had in the past, any benefits or agreement the union negotiates applied to all employees Exactly. This means there is effectively one seller. A
by randomdata 9y ago
> In jobs I've had in the past, any benefits or agreement the union negotiates applied to all employees
Exactly. This means there is effectively one seller. A greater supply would mean that there are people lining up to do the job for less.
Supply doesn't mean all people who want to work. means those who are willing to compete. Someone who wants way more conditions than even the union was able to negotiate at this place of business is not supply.
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- EliRivers 9y agoI think I'm happy with this. Sounds a lot better than the race to the bottom I see in some countries. I think also we see a lot less union activity than you do. I couldn't tell you who was in the union. The most prominent thing they do is put up some posters reminding people of employment law. I never saw them make wage negotiations and to a large extent, that's not what they do. So far as I could tell, they principally exist to provide another channel for enforcing employment law and ensuring safety standards in the workplace were being met, and in the even of unfair treatment provide an employee with support and legal representation. Maybe if they were heavily into negotiating wages and so on, it would be different (I think in some industries maybe they still do that), but I've never seen them do that in any company for which I've worked. Seems that unions do very different things in our respective countries; I expect them to protect me from illegal activity on the part of the powerful, rather than win anything for me.