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Unions are a legitimate business activity by people who sell their labor. They are forming business associations to negotiate better terms company or industry w
by kingkawn 7y ago
Unions are a legitimate business activity by people who sell their labor. They are forming business associations to negotiate better terms company or industry wide in order to improve the efficacy of their market position.
Union suppression is anti-free market.
- throwawaysea 7y agoSo why is a union different from people forming a separate company and contracting out their labor? Why ask for special provisions (obligating all employees to join and pay dues) if it is just a 'business association' like any other. And if that association is industry-wide as you said, doesn't that make it anti-free market?
- kingkawn 7y agoThey are making a legit decision that reflects their position in the market and their relative economic strength as individuals vs as a group. If they don’t do this their relative economic position is unacceptably weak, and they should not be expected to shoulder it passively.