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Originally posted by Superbelt
It's also similar to the tactic practiced by every large business in the world. Use your percentage of control of a certain market to bargain for a better price.
That is capitalism at work! Thanks.
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There are anti-trust laws in place to prevent that sort of behavior - to ensure that competition remains in place and that substitute products remain available to consumers. When unions require all workers to join, there is no more labor competition and no substitutes are available to the consumers of labor (employers). This is
not capitalism at work, Superbelt. Need I remind you that capitalism relies upon competitive market forces, whereas unions try to remove those competitive forces? No, this is not capitalism, it's collectivism.
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It's a workers right to strike. An employer COULD just fire them all and hire new non-union workers. But then they gain the ire of the general public, and lose all that experience and skill. Again, that is capitalism at work! Yay for america!
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Indeed. However, unions are actively trying to take away that ability by requiring all workers to join.
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Working on a graduate degree. Basically what you posted is gobbledegook.
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Goobledegook? Good luck with that degree, Superbelt.
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In a union, the laws of supply and demand deteriorate.
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Precisely. You just said exactly what I've been saying. Anything that causes the laws of supply and demand to "deteriorate" (in this case by trying to implement a floor on the price of labor through coercive tactics) is, by definition, anti-competitive. Again, it's not capitalism, it's collectivism.
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You want it some other way? Go live in a Dictatorship.
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Cute. But there has never been a capitalistic dictatorship. I could, however, name a few collectivist dictatorships if you're interested.
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Simple economic fact is, if you create an attractive environment for workers, as Unions have, you will attract the most intelligent, hard working, and driven people from around the world. This will increase your countrys wealth because you took it away from your competitors. As long as you keep the working environment better than your competitors you will have DEMAND for workers. [/B]
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Unions don't create an attractive environment for workers, Superbelt. In fact, without the employers, there would be no environment for workers, period. Unions cause unemployment by raising the cost of labor to a price above its equilibrium. That creates the exact opposite of what you're describing. A better working environment comes about through efficiency and productivity gains, as well as economic growth and prosperity. Unions fight efficiency and productivity, and they tax economic growth and prosperity.