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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I don’t have a problem with unions. But I don’t think unions should have a monopoly where one union controls all the ports on the east and south coast. We should have separate unions for each port and they should not be allowed to collude with other union in the other ports.
That way, 45,000 workers can’t impact the entire country.
The monopoly laws should apply to business and to labor.
Concentrated power is usually bad whether it is business, labor, or government.
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The monopolies in unions, specially the public unions where the customer has no alternative choices is a big issue. In private company unions at least you have a choice, if for example a car made by GM gets too expensive you can buy another brand. In public unions such as schools or federal workers unions there is a lot of unfunded liabilities in many States due to the defined pensions that decades ago the private sector also offered but not anymore switching to 401K contributions.
It is the one reason that the public unions vote 95% for the democrats as they pat each others backs. Basically the public unions don’t want themselves and their jobs and compensation be subject to market forces as much as in the private sector. The same market forces of outsourcing blue collar and then white collar jobs by both parties egged on by Wall Street.
That’s what led to the 2016 political shakedown by Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left.