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by chrisseaton 2653 days ago
If there’s an industry-wide closed-shop union and it votes for seniority pay then I’m out of luck. It’s replacing tyranny of the employer with tyranny of the majority.
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I don't think you understand how unions work...

Closed-shop unions are illegal in the US, for starters, so you can't have a closed-shop industry-wide union.

The only industry-wide unions that exist set workplace protections and salary floors but no salary caps...and no indutry-wide union has ever embraced seniority-based pay because, being an industry-wide union, that regime wouldn't work across the very different economic environments of 50 states and their thousands of cities.