Outside of Union rhetoric I have never seem any reason to connect productivity to hourly wages. Maybe someone can explain.
--other than the fact that higher productivity means less need for labor?
If I make five widgets per hour, and you make ten, do I deserve the same hourly wage as you?
What if my five widgets are high quality, well-crafted widgets, and your ten widgets were sloppily slapped together? Should we receive the same hourly wage?
Maybe our wages would be better set on the quality and quantity of widgets that we make, and not the time spent making them?