archanfel
Active Member
You're wrong, unionization drives up the wages of workers in the entire sector. It has spillover benefits for everyone. And you're assumption that unionized wages are "artificially inflated" has no basis whatsoever. If anything non-unionized wages are artificially depressed. They've been stagnate for decades while productivity and management pay has skyrocketed.
Then I am guess consumer price is artificially depressed too. In the 80s we had double digit inflation, now we barely have 2%. What happened? Big conspiracy theory!
Guess what, that's how market works. Supply and demand determines the price, or in this case the salary. Nobody said real wages are guaranteed to increase. If you want higher wages, learn new skills and move to more in demand market. Like, I don't know, become a manager? If you think now is bad, wait till they invent universal robots.
If you don't believe unionized wages in the public sector are artificially inflated, then I guess you will have no problem let them compete with private sector workers then. I am glad we have another supporter for contracting out garbage collection.