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Also of note is that the US doesn't really have sectoral bargaining like, say, France does. This would prevent scenarios where nonunionized companices in a sec
by treyd 3y ago
Also of note is that the US doesn't really have sectoral bargaining like, say, France does. This would prevent scenarios where nonunionized companices in a sector can start up and outperform established unionized ones just by hiring desperate people and paying them below the fair rate.
- Nifty3929 3y agoThe people who get hurt the most in that case would be the employees who aren't hired and the customers who are not served by the business that therefore does not start.
- treyd 3y agoYeah and then all the companies that pay their workers well are undercut by those that don't and all the now-unemployed workers have no choice but to work for less than a fair wage. Many such cases.
- legitster 3y agoThe US does in some sectors! But this traces all the way back to when two competing union organizations in the US (the AFL and CIO, before they merged) had major beef about how unions should operate. In the end, the CIO's model mostly won out. It would be really hard to do sectoral bargaining in the US because there are vastly different costs of living across the country but each state is required to have free trade with each other. So to have New York workers bargaining for Alabama workers or vis versa would be a disaster. It should also be worth pointing out that countries with sectoral bargaining also have huge number of self-employed and sole enterprise people. France has something like 2-3 times the number of self-employed people, and my understanding is that it's one of the only ways people in these economies can "opt-out" of bargaining agreements.