[FireBeyond]

> but 43% pay raises in union contracts were mostly unheard of

mostly unheard of?

I'd challenge anyone to show a union winning even a >25% pay raise for their employees, and even those would be unicorns.

[robertlagrant]

Any highly competitive market for workers (e.g. silicon valley software developers) is going to be much better for wages than a union, and even they won't generally make 43% more YOY.