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I have always been a big supporter of #unions but lately I have been second-guessing that and debating with myself if I might actually change my views to be against unions....

My thinking is simple.. I am a huge supporter of anti-trust laws. Essentially I dont think companies should be allowed to create coalitions with the intention of price-fixing the market. This makes sense to me, companies **must** compete or else they can become too powerful.

If i believe in that logic then I should, by similar logic, be against unions. Unions are effectively large groups of people getting together to carry out price-fixing of their labour.
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There has always been the danger of unions creating their own massive power structures beyond organized crime. Unions are still needed due to failure by United States Federal Authorities to reign in big business. If we get rid of unions, collective bargaining creases to exist and big business grows even more stronger. U.S. elected politicians have already weakened anti-trust laws, so if we weaken or totally eliminate unions big business will continue lobbying efforts to do away with anti-trust laws and labor unions. There is no easy answer to this problem, U.S. history proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that big business cannot be trusted. U.S. history also proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that organized crime has in the past infiltrated labor unions.

So there has always been dishonestly within U.S. private business on both sides of the equation.

#economics #unions #QOTO #news

Sincerely, Katherine Tate, Managing Editor, #FreePeoplesFreePress News

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 2y ago

nostr:npub1734e8cvj9tjwt3nrwyvewsgfy4zj8xk0770vf8cv286p4fcj0vvswawlul I'd argue unions arent needed due to a failure of the USA to "reign in big business"... all that means is we need to start enforcing anti-trust laws. Otherwise we get into the flip side where if unions are allowed than companies are completely justified in what they do as well.