It depends on the Union and where you're at. Some unions negotiate everything from vacation time to pay bands to how raises happen. There are many places where

It depends on the Union and where you're at. Some unions negotiate everything from vacation time to pay bands to how raises happen. There are many places where the hardest worker and the laziest worker make the same. There are places where what you make is solely based on how long you've had the job and it's not negotiable. Unions work differently in different places.