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The law takes a step that is completely unique: it prohibits employers from asking prospective hires about their salary histories until after they make a job offer that includes compensation, unless the applicants voluntarily disclose the information. No other state has such a ban in place.
[...] The new law also bans salary secrecy, blocking employers from keeping their employees from talking about pay with each other. About half of all employees say they are either prohibited or discouraged from discussing compensation, even though they have a legal right to do so.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/08/01/massachusetts-equal-pay-comparable-work-baker-bill/
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/08/01/3803836/massachusetts-equal-pay/
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Capt. Obvious on Wednesday August 03 2016, @08:37PM
I call BS on that being the "only benefit". It may be all you noticed, but your salary was almost certainly higher because that union had been around historically. Benefits too. The problem unions hav is that over time workers become acclimated to what they have, and start opposing a union because ti doesn't keep delivering bigger and bigger wins. But, without the union historically, they wouldn't be where they are now, and without the union in the future, they'll probably revert twoards that old version.