The better option are well regulated trade and labor unions, and mandatory labor representation
Agreed. I’m not a fan of mandatory representation as then it becomes a self eating beast but unions are better than a minimum wage
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Skyrmir@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Minimum wage is a crappy way to improve wages. The better option are well regulated trade and labor unions, and mandatory labor representation. But since this is America, we’ve got a minimum wage, and that’s about the best we’re going to get.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Mandatory labor representation is a terrible idea, a union will have no motivation to work to better lives of the employees.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A union is only beholden to the employees rather than management.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 3 months ago
A union where employees are forced to join is beholden to no-one
LoriQuaid@noauthority.social 3 months ago
@jimbolauski @Skyrmir It seems less than democratic to me that employees who voted in a union many decades ago got to have the final say in whether people who work there generations later are unionized.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Except the people that elect it’s leaders, which would be the employees.