Explore how unions and firms shape pay and career paths within a real-world internal labor market.

This book analyzes how a unionized workplace uses a job-evaluation system to set wages and how internal ladders affect mobility and future earnings. It examines a refinery case where a two-ladder structure—Operations and Maintenance—frames promotion, transfer, and quitting decisions under collective agreement rules.

Readers will see how changes inside a firm, like higher ability requirements or more promotion slots, can shift who moves up, how quickly, and what wages look like over time. The discussion blends theory and a concrete industry example to explain short-run wage dynamics in a unionized setting.

• How wage levels are tied to job content and criteria within a CWS-like evaluation system.


• How internal promotion rules and ladder design influence worker mobility and wage growth.


• Differences between adding new job types versus reshaping existing ones and their effects on retention and opportunities.


• How tenure interacts with promotion eligibility to shape the wage- tenure profile.

Ideal for readers interested in labor economics, union theory, and the practical mechanics of internal labor markets.

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