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uhsguy  ·  902 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America Is Running Out of Everything

In a labor shortage situation you don’t really need unions to demand higher wages. Employees just quit and go elsewhere. Union wages are actually quite sticky and low on the new hire end due to how contracts always favor seniority and get locked in for many years. Non union wages have been going up quickly to respond to labor shortages but union wages have to wait till next contract.

Union leadership is also super stale in most organizations, they really are only effective in newly formed unions where the folks are passionate about organization and demanding reform vs protecting the status quo. The National union leaders are just cancer for the whole movement. I swear they were planted for their incompetence to prevent effective organization.