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adfhietinoi
3y ago
We hear this all the time, but it seems largely irrelevant. There's no good reason to believe that the lowest-paid workers would lose their jobs if they had to be paid more. There are no randomized controlled trials about raising the m
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adfhietinoi
3y ago
Unions have won concessions many times that workers did not win on their own. This is a simple historical fact. You cannot account for this, so your understanding is wrong. >Rather than being simple-minded thugs looking to whoop-ass, the
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adfhietinoi
3y ago
Well that's nice, except that organized labor has in fact improved the lives of workers time and time again. Companies generally come crawling back in a hurry, willing to make concessions they previously claimed were impossible, when t