I fail to see why it is the state&#x27;s business to write the laws in such a way as to give unions leverage over their constituents.<p>I also fail to see why other benefits that a union could get should exempt them from minimum wage laws.  Employers could give non-union employees benefits, too, but that doesn&#x27;t exempt <i>them</i> from the minimum wage laws.  I fail to see how a union being in the mix should change anything.