Tiered wage systems create a circumstance in which two people working side by side, doing the same job, could be paid very differently. Even when experience is factored in, wage caps often mean that the less senior of the two workers will never have a chance to make as much as his or her peer—creating a permanent underclass of workers and betraying the unions’ doctrine of solidarity.
Unions and Bargaining Over Pay: Two-Tier Wage Systems, Explained
