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2-tiered wage systems test today's labor relations

by Caroline Champlin

Oct 18, 2021

In the 1980s, some companies paid new workers less than current workers. Now, employers are trying that system during a labor shortage.

A striking worker pickets a John Deere facility in Davenport, Iowa. The current labor shortage is making it harder to pay new workers less than those already employed.

Scott Olson via Getty Images

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