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'Their unfortunate demise is almost entirely their own fault'
Unions are a service industry like lawyers and accountants. They sell a service representing and advocating for workers. Their unfortunate demise is almost entirely their own fault. They charge too much for their services through dues and many current members and many more prospective members do not see the value for their dues. Slav
'Young people do not believe unions are providing services worthy of their cost'
The decline of unions has little to do with political attacks upon them: in our democracy, if 90% of the real workforce demanded something, they would get it. It has everything to do with the fact that young people nowadays do not believe that unions are providing services worthy of their cost. They recognize--correctl
Why Unions Could Increase Unemployment
Consumers will naturally gravitate toward the best value, which is why Wal-Mart has been successful by imparting downward pressure on prices and the cost of living. That you don't like them because it hurts your profit margin selling whatever it is you're selling doesn't change the fact that basic laws of supply and demand have led to consumers getting the goo
I was in a union and 'unions are unnecessary'
I worked in a unionized refinery and my personal experience has been that unions are unnecessary. As an engineer, I was unable to touch any tools, provide any assistance to our technicians and operators for "taking work away from a union employee." While not always the case, the union gave protection to the laborer to be extremely lazy...
The right to leave'
With all this discussion of power, people seem to be missing the biggest bargaining chip of all - the right to leave. An employee has the nearly unfettered right to walk away from a job. Even with noncompete clauses and other employment contracts, there are very, very few cases in which an employee can be forced to work. Conversely, a company has numerous restrictions on when, h
ALL ABOUT CAPITAL-D DEMOCRATIC POLITICS
I don't know why, but the US union movement veered in an adversarial direction, probably in the 1950s. The dominant theme of industrial unions in their heyday was a pathological opposition to management that resulted in the death of the heavy industrial companies that employed them. Just consider the ways in which the UAW and auto workers interacted with th