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Almost everything you described could be done by a private sector union. They're just worse at it.
by zeroCalories 2y ago
Almost everything you described could be done by a private sector union. They're just worse at it.
- snapplebobapple 2y agoNo it can't be, at least not for any serious length of time. If a private union gets away with the above for any length of time it will eventually kill the company because the competing companies will outcompete it. (it could work if the company was a strong oligopoly or monopoly but the correct solution there is to break up the company, not allow the union to collect its piece of the monopoly profits at the expense of deadweight loss to society).
- zeroCalories 2y agoMany unions, like the actors guild, or nurses' union aren't tied to specific companies. You see auto workers' protesting and Biden trying to appease them, but in the end it doesn't matter much because they are weak. Sure the union might end up just killing their industry, but that's no different from public unions getting crushed by resentful voters, which we've seen in cases with police unions.