One of the biggest taboos in American work life is actually stating your salary. This is a great way for employers to divide employees. How can you collectively work for better conditions when people don’t know what each other are making? In the older world, when most people were working for wages, people knew. But in the salaried world? Forget about it, for most of us anyway. So I love this project a lot:
@corlin Transparency in compensation is a huge step. Folks should know what their co-workers and supervision/management are paid. One of the things that I like about being a union member is that we all are on the same pay scale, doing the same job.
@Ironworker229
Yep.
In my union, slightly different pay scales for different occupations. But total transparency. Also even though contracts were not industry wide, but shop by shop. Total transparency. Wanted to go to another city, another plant. You knew exactly what everyone in the plant earned. Before you moved.