Re: Big strike at GM
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The union's had their time and place
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Not really.
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whats the time frame for those graphs again, because it looks like it ends in the 1960s, and we aren't in Pleasantville
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The book those graphs are from was written in the late 50's (F.A. Harper's Why Wages Rise). In any event, do you really think that right after the 60's wages somehow fell in line with union membership or wages fell out of line with productivity increases? What time and place did they have?
[/ QUOTE ]I think everyone involved in this quote here thinks unions are pointless today. Let's not bother with an argument about whether they had a point 50 years ago.
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It has always struck me as odd that businesses that form cartels and purposefully shut out competition at the expense of overall welfare are villified, and generally held in violation of various laws, while the explicit mission of labor unions is do the EXACT same thing and it is encouraged--even guaranteed by articles like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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