Why aren't wages rising in a tight labor market?
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How many people have formal annual wage negotiations? It's rare in my experience. But imagine a law that required say two 30 minute wage and conditions negotiations one week apart every year? For every employee.
Pretty much every other input has an annual contract and a negotiation period - suppliers of everything do this.
And then imagine a private industry of agents (call them selves Trades Unions perhaps) that would block negotiate for people signed up.
(yeah why is that not a thing?)