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Originally Posted by rubecube
Just because some employees can temporarily enjoy market benefits that give them more power, it's still a hierarchy.
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It's not temporary.
The number of minimum wage workers in Canada is about 10% (it varies, but that's a reasonable number).
So 90% of the workers in Canada earn more than minimum wage. If the power balance of wage negotiations was universally held by the employers, then all employees would be driven to minimum wage. The fact that 90% of the workers in Canada can demonstrate either a little bit, or a lot of, pricing power for their wages confirms that employers don't have a hegemony.