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Originally posted by Locobot
Getting back to the original post I think people unwilling to pay union dues shouldn't receive any of the benefits unions have brought to the workplace: minimum wage, overtime, vacation, weekends, healthcare, medical leave, workplace safety, retirement, etc. These are the kind of things the econ. babblers mean when they are talking about "market inefficiency."
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If you mean on a national level, that's impossible. The minimum wage is now law, as is overtime, medical leave, workplace safety, etc. While the union movement impacted these things, they are no longer the driving force of them. Vacations, weekends, healthcare, retirement, etc are company specific practices and the unions have little to no impact on these in the vast majority of the economy.
If you mean on a more micro level as far as union vs non-union workers within a company or industry, I agree completely. I don't believe that non-union workers should benefit from contract concessions won by the union. If you're not paying for their representation you should not benefit from it. Of course, there aren't too many instances where there are both non-union and union workers doing the same jobs within companies. In fact, many unions fight tooth and nail to insure that non-union workers are never allowed into their labor markets since most union workers would lose out if they had to compete openly for these positons.