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> I don't support unions because unions drag everyone's wages to an average (I'd rather be a top performer and be paid accordingly). I see so many more people
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
> I don't support unions because unions drag everyone's wages to an average (I'd rather be a top performer and be paid accordingly).
I see so many more people with this viewpoint than can statistically all be “top performers”.
Given the low likelihood that any given person is a top performer, isn’t it better to organize in such a way that we all benefit?
- 0xy 6y agoNot when there's so much public information on wages. Compare your wage to the average among others in your location with your title. In my case, I earn about 110% more than the average salary for my title in my location. If I earned the average salary, I wouldn't be so high performing. I wouldn't care about my work beyond the minimum required to not be fired.
- danaris 6y agoWhy do you assume that a union would drag everyone's wages down to the pre-union average? Even assuming (which is an incredible leap of logic) that a union for people who are famously a highly-paid and highly-competitive sector would want to "pay everyone the same" (which, frankly, no union on the planet actually does; the absolute worst in that vein is pay based purely on seniority), it would be vastly more likely that the union would be able to bargain with employers to increase that average salary—perhaps not to match the very top, but well above what it was before the union was formed.