I can't respond to your original post anymore, because it's already downvoted into oblivion, so I'm going to post my reply here: > The best argument against un

I can't respond to your original post anymore, because it's already downvoted into oblivion, so I'm going to post my reply here: > The best argument against unions is thay they violate contract liberty, and thereby inhibit market freedom and increase economic rent seeking. Freedom of contract is about state interference. Worker's unions are compatible with free markets as much as corporate groups or large companies are. You can't make a logical argument rejecting only one of them. > any industry in the US that came to be dominated by unions became uncompetitive: the auto industry, US Steel, and the passenger rail service Except that a lot of the competition from other countries that supposedly leapfrogged them has famously strong unions. So much in fact they're usually used as examples for them. How do you reconcile that? Also the US car industry isn't even that bad off and neither is steel. Saying that your argument is limping would be sugar-coating it. If that was truly - as you say - the "best" argument against unions, then... oh well.