Unions
I was listening to NPR the other morning and they were interviewing someone who was part of a group that recently broke with the AFL-CIO.
This woman said that the group she represented was going to stop trying to recruit employees of a single business and instead widen their search to entire communities. For example, she said they would try to unite all the child care workers or all the janitors, in a whole community.
What I am wondering is if the good effects of a union outweigh the bad effects on the economy? It seems to me that a group of people who are controlling the price of their services in a community would set those prices higher than consumers would be willing to pay for them if there was competition in that sector.
Hypothetically,
Would the point of a Union of Childcare workers in Cache Valley be to protect those child care workers from (exploitation- or i don't know what) or to reduce competition and use the union as a way to raise their prices and make more money?
posted by Melissa @ 9:52 PM
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Great question melissa. The irony of unions is in the fact that in the long run they lead to higher unemployment for the very workers they support. Take the airline industry as an example. The most "profitable" firms are at best breaking even, and most are losing money. However, what are the unions pushing for? Higher wages and other forms of competition. What has the result been? Huge amounts of layoffs that directly affect the least skilled among the union members.
So much for helping out their own
The fact is that unions are part of this counrty. They are a powerful interest group, and like any interest group once they get their foot in the door it is going to be next to impossible to get rid of them. Are they good or are they bad is not the question that needs to be asked. They are and always will be, so their goodness is not an issue. The question that should be asked is how we can use them to our advantage?
Union play an important role of allowing workers to barter. Owners of businesses do collabrate on price and employment (it's often called a cartel). A union is an employee cartel. Employees need to be allowed to do this so that their needs can be met so they are not exploited by the cartels. Many point out that labor unions reduce the number of people employed. This is often true, but the thing you must recongize is, what good is it if everyone is employed at $5 a day. That won't even pay my rent. So the unions seek to make it so fewer people are employed at more money. I don't blame them for asking for a living wage although the rest of you do. I would recommend you all read about the 1902 coal strike.
A workers' Union is nothing more than a bunch of people with similare professions trying to take money that is not rightfully theirs under the guise of "equal rights."
I don't advocate the violence often used by unions, but agree with President Theodore Roosevelt that unions should be allowed to organize and speak. It's a constitutional right. They have EVERY right to negotiate for the pay they think they deserve.
In some sectors Unions may be good still, not sure exactly which in the era of globalization... but low skilled jobs can be outsourced to China or Mexico. Our Unions have been reduced to the lowest common denominator in the world market until the rest of the world catches up... until then Unions in the U.S. appear obsolete.
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