• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    3 months ago

    unions have allways reacted negatively, as it would effectively prevent them from negotiating for higher wages,

    Maybe take away power from the union, but the union can totally still negotiate a minimum wage if it want. The union I’m part (insurance workers of the state of São Paulo) have a minimum wage, higher that the state and national one.

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      3 months ago

      That is fair, I was absolutely projecting my Swedish biases in my earlier comment, sorry about that.

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        Sometimes a union will promote the union interest rather than member interest. There is a current scandal about corrupt unions here in Australia. We have a national minimum wages and also award wages by sector and seniority, like hundreds of minimum wages.