Pay, R&D as well as unit pricing are effects and results of "supply and demand", not so much what makes a person named Dicke happy.
Union's collective bargaining has the effect of constricting supply and so increasing demand for the available sources of workers. I am fairly sure the accounting offices in New Bremen, Ohio do not get to select a single source of income to finance any other single source.

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages."--Henry Ford

The real point I wanted to make here is the other side of the coin of the same logic is that companies or bosses do not create jobs, customer's demand for goods and services create jobs.