There is a very important caveat to that (at least in Denmark where I'm from). Most workers don't need a minimum wage.
Around 80% of workers are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Of the remaining some are well-paid PMC's but at the other end of the scale you find very low-paid workers, often migrants, who have limited rights and makes only a tiny amount more than welfare recipients. The politicians are happy that they can leave the responsibility for labour law with unions and employer organisations and are in no hurry to expand legal labour rights.
Danish unions are very succdem and far from being militant proletarian organisations. They have close relations with the leadership of the social democratic party. They would never ever do anything that could get a succdem government in trouble. Currently nurses are striking for better pay and they receive next to no support from other unions who instead support the succdem government's idea of burying the question of nurse salaries in a commission.
There is a very important caveat to that (at least in Denmark where I'm from). Most workers don't need a minimum wage.
Around 80% of workers are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Of the remaining some are well-paid PMC's but at the other end of the scale you find very low-paid workers, often migrants, who have limited rights and makes only a tiny amount more than welfare recipients. The politicians are happy that they can leave the responsibility for labour law with unions and employer organisations and are in no hurry to expand legal labour rights.
Danish unions are very succdem and far from being militant proletarian organisations. They have close relations with the leadership of the social democratic party. They would never ever do anything that could get a succdem government in trouble. Currently nurses are striking for better pay and they receive next to no support from other unions who instead support the succdem government's idea of burying the question of nurse salaries in a commission.