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While I’m opposed to corruption in unions, according to the BLS, workers are better off with unions than without them: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/04/art
by claudeganon 7y ago
While I’m opposed to corruption in unions, according to the BLS, workers are better off with unions than without them:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/04/art2full.pdf https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/04/art2full.pdf
- jkp56 7y ago"workers are better off" is a statistical nonsense regardless of what's written in that pdf. This type of arguments can convince only non technical or not very smart people. A proper analysis would split workers into subgroups and give specific numbers for each subgroup. A proper analysis would use words like percentiles, median and distribution. When I see that "something is better on average" I always think that I'm being lied to.
- MiroF 7y agoThat's just his/her paraphrasing of the complete source - if you actually had read that one you would see that it does give specific numbers for subgroups.