manyfriends

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   by manyfriends 4y ago

   > So they pass costs on to consumers as well as pushing those out of work that would compete with them. This is pretty straightforward - and demonstrated in the literature as I posted The literature you posted demonstrated no such thing.
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   by manyfriends 4y ago

   > A union is a monopoly on labor, which has all the downsides of monopolies on goods or production. I appreciate your citation of those papers, but I feel that this is an unjust comparison -- unions raise wages for workers even outside
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   by manyfriends 4y ago

   Seems like speculation / projection. If your argument about unions and extremism was supported, you’d expect to see a correlation between high union membership and “extremism”. If anything, countries with high union density (Sweden, Ic
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   by manyfriends 4y ago

   > Unions often drive out workers at the benefit of those getting union jobs, lowering employment. For example, see [5] and similar papers. This seems a bit misleading from the article you referenced: “The researchers find that, for both