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> check history Classic. But historically, advances in wages and advantages tightly follow the economic curve: Employers increase wages when skills and economi
by laurent92 6y ago
> check history
Classic. But historically, advances in wages and advantages tightly follow the economic curve: Employers increase wages when skills and economic development gets better. Not correlated with unionization, even when the union is here when the paper is signed and brandish it as a success (looking at you, Congé Payés in France in 1936, many companies were already doing it when the union gathered with the bosses to say “We do it”).
- simion314 6y agoI think you were manipulated with some examples, so let me know such example that you are thinking of, also try to fit your view with my examples: "miners union demand pay on time and safer conditions", "actors union demand safety", "teacher union demands a raise equal with inflation" . Your view is that this groups should wait until the free market will solve their issue? Many people here are comparing their programming job with someone that works an unskilled low paying job, this people can't individually demand things like "hey, put it in my contract that you will allow me 2 minutes toilet breaks, not 1 like the others, I am a 10X worker see my CV on GitHub"
- dontreact 6y agoWages have stagnated since sometime around unions started to lose power. Wage growth has certainly not kept up with GDP. And the decoupling of these two things happened around the time unions started to lose power.
- ric2b 6y ago> But historically, advances in wages and advantages tightly follow the economic curve: Employers increase wages when skills and economic development gets better. Except that hasn't been the case since the 70's