That said, union shops did vote and saw the same thing. Starting wages went up, hours needed for benefits went up so fewer qualified, and hours went down with a big push to self-checkout and customer scan-go technologies. It's frustrating because you may not have the labor to replace a call out. You need a certain number of hours to keep people coming to work but it's also hard to hire because the hours aren't there even if the base pay might get people to interview. Job mobility is too easy in this economy for retail caught in this trap.
They raised minimum wage to virtue signal. Just like they did the multisex bathrooms and the no-criminal-history-checks policy.