> Collective bargaining is practically a profanity in the US While this is not true for all Europe, excessive "collective" (quotes intended) bargaining in my

> Collective bargaining is practically a profanity in the US While this is not true for all Europe, excessive "collective" (quotes intended) bargaining in my country has ensured indeed a sort of equality... an equality where everyone is put at the bottom with regards to wages. That's because everything is decided at national level (there are contracts for workers, teachers, engineers...) with close to zero local flexibility. New professions are kind of shoehorned into previous contract types (heck, I'm a researcher, and my contract applies to the "retail industry"). Major national unions (which have mostly retirees in their ranks) prefer it like this because they can have political power. That's why they are vehemently opposing any kind of local negotiation between employees and local unions, because that would strip them off their power. tl;dr: Implementations differ, some might even yield worse results than before.