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| + | "Lloyd Miller" <lloyd@a-albionic.com> wrote: | ||
| + | Real, existing Labor Unions are not free associations. They are based | ||
| + | on government privileges passed in the 1930's and formalized via the | ||
| + | National Labor Relations Board... Of course, truly voluntary labor | ||
| + | unions would be ok according to libertarianism. | ||
| + | Neither are corporations free associations. They too are based on government | ||
| + | privileges, originally based on state charters, and later greatly expanded | ||
| + | by the federal government. | ||
| + | If the LP is silent about government sponsorship of unions for fear of | ||
| + | offending workers, imagine how much more they must fear offending | ||
| + | corporations. | ||
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| + | Corporate law enforces a complicated relationship | ||
| + | between the Corporation, Shareholders, Directors, Managers (and other | ||
| + | Employees), and external Transactors (such as suppliers and customers.) | ||
| + | External transactors MUST operate through the CORPORATION. They cannot | ||
| + | legally operate through the component agents of the corporation. | ||
| + | The same is true of UNIONS. Employers MUST negotiate through the unions, | ||
| + | not through the individual members. There is no difference in the legal special | ||
| + | privilege: in either case, you are required to operate through the | ||
| + | organization, not the individual. | ||
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| + | countervailing power: a Galbraith idea in: | ||
| + | American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power | ||
| + | unions, minimum wage, and other practices to make markets less callous and | ||
| + | better serve the needs of the majority | ||
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| + | Corporations are every bit as much government constructs as unions. It's obvious CATO is a corporatist shill, otherwise it would be denouncing corporations as vehemently as it denounces unions. | ||
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| + | "Studies of unionization provide evidence that, on the whole, unionized | ||
| + | companies have higher labor productivity than non-unionized companies | ||
| + | (except, of course, when the union is on strike!) This is a surprising | ||
| + | result, and there has been some controversy about how to explain it. | ||
| + | One possible explanation is that the higher productivity comes from the | ||
| + | productivity effect of better wages (and working conditions) the unions | ||
| + | were able to obtain. The productivity effect does not seem to increase | ||
| + | profits in this case, however. Apparently the increase in productivity | ||
| + | is just about balanced out by the increase in wages." | ||
| + | http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/prin/txt/factors/crits5.html | ||
| + | McCain on unions and salaries and productivity. | ||
| + | What this means is that from a macroeconomic perspective, unions are | ||
| + | quite beneficial, and worth promoting to increase the productivity of | ||
| + | society. | ||
