You're telling me that, rather than get more money, you would follow principle and _not_ unionize your job classification? This doesn't sound as though you're working for your own self-interest.
I'm not totally dumb, of course I'd rather have more money however, I would be much happier with pay scales for everyone being much more in tune with worth of work which would make my money be able to go further. I do believe that scale is important. You work for Penn and do you think you deserve less money for doing a scientific job than say a maybe high-school graduated bus-driver?
As far as having "earned" your salary... well, I'm sure you find it comforting to think that your salary is solely due to the sweat of your brow and your own talents, but that's never the case. For one thing, the pay grades in most jobs are determined by job markets, rules of seniority, previous negotiations between labor and management (many of which are the result of union organizing), and federal law. In other words, your schooling and experience could just as easily be _ignored_ by your employers, if they hadn't had to consider such things in the past.
Yes but that is the past and I'd like to think the vast majority of places are past the point where they need unions and can get good labor and pay a decent wage w/o having to have it be over the top because a mass of people force it to be.
Look at it this way. You're doing fine now. But let's say you're downsized. Would _that_ be attributable to your schooling, experience, and general personal qualities?
No idea, you?
-Ben
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