Have unions been successful at raising wages for their members? What about raising wages for all workers?

What will be an ideal response?


Yes, they have been successful at raising wages for their members. To the extent that higher union wages come by generating an excess supply of workers, some of those workers unable to get jobs may go into the nonunion sector looking for work. This would tend to decrease wages for nonunion workers. Hence, it is likely that unions have caused nonunion workers to receive lower wages than they would if there were no unions.

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