I think you’re oversimplifying.

Raising the minimum wage increases the cost of each worker and lowers the relative cost of automation technology that obviates the need for those workers while simultaneously increasing the jobs and income available to mid-income technology professionals, thus widening the income disparity.

Unionized labor forces homogenize employers’ treatment of employees, creating a workplace that is unfair to the best and worst workers: the best because they cannot achieve the compensation, recognition, or advancement they deserve; the worst because they cannot be fired or transitioned in the timely fashion that would allow them to seek more suitable employment. All workers suffer because the homogenous treatment is manifestly unfair and inefficient. This is obvious from situations like schools in california, the american airline industry, and the american automobile manufacturing industry. The UAW as both owner and labor representative for GM and Chrysler has an opportunity to prove this wrong, my bet is they will not and both will be liquidated in a near-future bankruptcy.