If one worker is willing to respond to alerts at 3 AM and another only works 9-5, then those two workers are providing different levels of value to the company assuming equal ability. Why shouldn't the worker that contributes more get rewarded?
This is why unionized workplaces are
> if you adjust for hours worked, unionized employees will make more
This is in large part because unions artificially restrict the workforce. A union job at the docks is great... if you can actually get a job. Plenty of unions practice institutionalized nepotism, with friends and family given priority in hiring. Take the LA port union for example:
> This time around, about 80,000 put their names in for the drawing, and 25,000 were picked out and placed in sequential order. The first 2,300 on the list will be eligible for a part-time dockworker position that can lead to full-time employment, PMA officials have previously said.
> Negotiated between the ILWU and PMA, the controversial lottery process has been criticized over the years for being a two-tiered system that favors ILWU friends and family.
> Anyone can put their name in the drawing by sending in a postcard, but ILWU members get a specially marked postcard for their friends and family.
>The two are placed in separate barrels and drawn randomly from alternating piles. The two groups hired an outside party, Moorpark-based InterOptimis, to conduct the drawing behind closed doors, stoking distrust from those outside the process.
Institutionalized nepotism to restrict lucrative jobs to friend and family. That's what happens when unions control well paying jobs.
Union jobs that actually are accessible are things like public school teachers, electricians, plumbers. They pay okay, but nothing compared to to $150,000 median wage of a longshoremen.
> Why shouldn't the worker that contributes more get rewarded?
Expecting work at 3AM is inhumane. Incorporating it into the incentive structure enables a race to the bottom that jeopardizes sleep schedule which has numerous health consequences
Also let's consider a bunch of these workers are on a visa and can get deported at the whim of their employer
> Plenty of unions practice institutionalized nepotism, with friends and family given priority in hiring
I mean, are you saying that the corporations they're negotiating against don't do this also? It's a problem anywhere where there's money
if you adjust for hours worked, unionized employees will make more