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A union is a cartel now? Are you shitting me? It's amazing how anti-labor people are nowadays.

• thwarted 18y ago
  http://www.google.com/search?q=define:cartel http://www.google.com/search?q=define:cartel s/(firm|enterprise|organization)s?/people/g In as much as UAW, for example, couldn't be considered a "firm" or an "enterprise" already. In some sense, UAW is a contracting firm whose service is its members' work product.
  • hugh 18y ago
    The main difference between the UAW and a regular contracting firm is that if I decide to stop buying labour from a regular contracting firm, that firm can't and won't wind up blockading my factory entrance and trying to stop my new labourers getting in. Whereas if GM tried firing all its union employees and hiring non-union labour instead... well, I'm sure you can guess what would happen. If the UAW were a regular firm, it would be unobjectionable.
    • thwarted 18y ago
      That's good point. However, the UAW's ability and tendency to blockade the factory entrance could be _worse_ than a regular firm or a cartel in some respects.
      • hugh 18y ago
        Er, yes, well of course, that was my point.