PM Series: Question 22

[AggregateDemand]

Disagree/Non-Critical

People who don't work eventually get fired. It's gravity in the labor market. Unions can try to fight it with labor laws and shareholder intimidation, but their jobs will get sent out-of-state or overseas, and automation will take more jobs. Unions are supposed to be providing a valuable service to the company and to the employees. Strike has zero value-added to anyone in the long run.

[AggregateDemand]

Unions are not supposed to provide a service to employers. The point of a union is to act as the representative of the worker and as an intractable enemy of the employer in every possible instance, because the union is supposed to seek higher wages, better benefits, and better working conditions for its members. That's what a union is. Unions that are buddy-buddy with the employer might as well be company unions (like the UAW has basically become, at this point) because they don't represent the people who pay dues to them and elect their leadership.

It's comforting to know, especially for all of those who've lost their manufacturing jobs, that you are dedicated to the moral purity of the labor movement, regardless of the outcomes achieved.

[AggregateDemand]

It's comforting to know that you continue to be a vapid idiot with no conception of what working is actually like in the real world. If a union bends over backwards for the boss, it might as well not be there, because it's betraying the workers who pay it dues.

I think you've identified yourself as the vapid idiot with no employment experience (or you've learned nothing).

No one bends over backwards. People trade. Strike is not trade leverage, nor does it promote economic growth. It's a form of extortion--give us what we want or we will harm you. What is the natural reaction of white collar workers when their careers, benefits, etc, as well as the economic well-being of their homeland, are threatened by union strikes at their employer?

If unions weren't run by morons, perhaps they'd have more members and create fewer enemies. Maybe their management of legacy costs wouldn't require taxpayer bailouts.

You're just like any other addict. The intervention is an affront. Masochism is your source of positive affirmation. Get help. Stop failing.