"I might be an engineer and my salary could be different from yours for a variety of reasons," says T. Ray Bennett, vice president of human resources at the 2,600-employee American Bureau of Shipping in Houston. "They could include time with the company, industry time, performance, specialties, additional training -- there are a lot of reasons why guys in the same job could have different salaries," its called division of labor, and divided workers cant fight the boss.
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It is clear that the real reason for wage nondisclosure expectations has nothing to do with "avoiding problems" arising from ill will and inequity. The real motive is the maintenance of information asymmetry. Bargaining power in the buying or selling of anything (including labor) requires knowing the "going rate." Since the "going rate" is a moving average, knowledge of it requires a knowing a large number of "data points." Knowing what one person is making is knowing one data point. Also knowing "time with the company, industry time, performance, specialties, additional training" is knowing a data point in multiple variables, which is all the better. As promoters of worker solidarity, we should promote the sharing of detailed information about our economic lives.
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