Backgrounder posted June 19, 2012 by James Sherk, Ryan O'Donnell
RAISE Act Lifts Pay Cap on Millions of American Workers
Abstract: Federal law allows unions to impose wage restrictions on nearly 8 million American middle-class workers. Union contracts set both a wage floor and a wage ceiling—barring unionized employers from offering pay raises as reward for exceptional work without negotiating with the union. No matter how hard most union members work, they cannot earn higher wages than…