I work for a major multi-national comapny, and all of the union plants make much less than the non-union plants for the EXACT same position. (I can see all this info from the employee website with postings for open positions)
According to managers it is EXPLICITLY because we are union. They claim the union sets the wage at negotiations and the union decided on less than what the company was willing to pay. (If this is true, being non-union would be a 50% pay increase.) The trade off is betrer retirement benefits for the more seniored staff.
However i feel like the truth is ALOT more complicated than they say. Regardless negotiations are coming up this year, im not happy knowing people with a much lower COL (cost of living) in other states make 50% more than i do for the same job.
Im not a union rep but is there any way i can help make a change here? Without screwing over my coworkers of course!