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I am all for unions as long as they aren't mandated. In some areas an Amazon warehouse job is an exceptionally good job. I grew up in a place where one of the

I am all for unions as long as they aren't mandated. In some areas an Amazon warehouse job is an exceptionally good job. I grew up in a place where one of the best job you could get was working at a Walmart distribution center. Basically like an Amazon warehouse but the whole this is a freezer. Also the government can't and shouldn't try to govern bad choices away from people. This would lead to a very authoritarian society.

pessimizer 5y ago
Unions are not allowed to negotiate benefits and wages exclusively for their members. Non-union employees are forced by this to become free riders. https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/right-to-fair-representation https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
- mlyle 5y ago
  > > I am all for unions as long as they aren't mandated. > Unions are not allowed to negotiate benefits and wages exclusively for their members. Parent is talking about "closed shops" where a union uses its bargaining power to ensure the employer will only employ people represented by the union. On the one hand this prevents the free-rider problem you mention. On the other, this is coercive and can erode employees' ability to negotiate about things important to them. It can also be inefficient-- I've been in workplaces where I got in trouble for moving a desk in my office a few feet, because moving furniture was a closed-shop union job, and I wasn't a member.