St. Louis will drop minimum wage from $10 to $7.70.

[Pyro as Bill]

Teeqoz said:

Superman4 said:

Unions are why jobs are going overseas. Just pay a lawer to represent you and you will spend your money better. Union dues pay the employees of Unions, State and Federal laws dictate labour law. Unions do fight for higher wages and benefits and in turn companies charge more for their products, the employee gets a higher wage and gets to give the union dues which eats into their take home pay.

The jobs that are going overseas will go overseas regardless. US low-skill workers in movable industries can't compete with those workers from China/India/etc, and no one can compete with robots.

As for wether it's worth it, on average, unionized workers make 10-30% (varies between types of jobs and age groups) more than non-unionized workers in the US. The highest premium is for low skilled jobs, because people in higher skilled jobs on average have more leverage to negotiate pay, but even for them they benefit around 10%.

People that make $10 an hour will make about $20000 a year working normal shifts, which would be bumped up to about $23000 (on average) for the comparable unionized worker (using a reasonable estimate of 15% better pay). Meanwhile, union dues for such a worker would only be around 350$ a year.... So it is definitely worth it.

Until the capital that was supposed to be used for investment into more productive equipment is diverted to wages and everyone loses their job because the company that paid lower wages had the capital to increase productivity and undercut you.