Posted by gride on 12/06/08Last updated 12/06/08
"The Voluntary Way
In a free society, labor unions, like other organizations, would be voluntary groups trying to advance the interests of their members. They would abide by the laws and seek no special privileges or immunities. Unions that offered employers the most competent and reliable workers, who were willing to work for competitive free market wage rates, would grow and prosper. Labor unions that offered incompetent workers, insisted on featherbedding, or other unnecessary or costly conditions and demanded higher wage rates than competent non-union members would willingly accept would soon fade away. Certainly, in a free society no group should or would resort to violence, coercion or special privileges to obtain what it seeks.
The free market operates according to the Golden Rule. The higher values one contributes to the market place, as valued by consumers, the more one receives in return. Free market operations are always voluntary transactions by which all parties exchange something they have for something on which they place a higher value. Goods and services thus continually move to persons who place a higher value on them. Barring human error or the use of force or fraud, all parties gain from all such transactions. The prevention of the use of force or fraud is a prime function of government.
Dr. Carson tells us how many labor unions now operate, with the help of laws and court decisions, coercing employers to join with them to grant them a monopoly of certain jobs. Such unions are thus able to shut out the competition of competent applicants for those jobs. Then, by demanding still higher wage rates, some unions further reduce production and employment by pricing some of their own members, those with low seniority, out of their high paying jobs. In short, labor unionism, as now practiced, is not only the enemy of employers, investors and consumers, but it is primarily the enemy of competent job seekers who, as a result of union action, must remain underpaid or unemployed."
from: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=1520
another good aarticle about labor unions for New Hampshire Free Press
http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/248
Tags: Union, labor
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Posted 12/10/08
ChristopherJ
Columbus, OH | That's a fantastic blurb about labor unions. Well written. I started to learn a bit about them a couple of months ago when I was reading about how labor unions were the start of the minimum wage acts. The minimum wage is one of the largest of many reasons our free enterprise market is being destroyed... and it all came out of the greed imposed by the Labor Unions. |
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