Unions don't set pay-levels, just minimum pay and percentage pay increases, generally. Furthermore, just look here in California to multiple successful white-c

Unions don't set pay-levels, just minimum pay and percentage pay increases, generally. Furthermore, just look here in California to multiple successful white-collar unions: the WGA (writers), the DGA (directors), and SAG (actors). If you're bad at your job or people don't like to work with you, you won't get hired, yet meanwhile, the unions guarantee everything from health insurance to minimum pay to pension to residuals and therefore allow much greater mobility between studios, jobs, and shows.