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bobabode 05-22-2015 12:15 AM

Unions On The Rebound?
 
I sure hope so. Unions are the true rising tide that lifts all boats.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...9e9_story.html

nailer 05-22-2015 07:16 AM

Unions are a means to rise some boats at the expense of others.

Dondilion 05-22-2015 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by nailer (Post 271763)
Unions are a means to rise some boats at the expense of others.

What is the point of this statement? The rising of boats must incur expense.

donquixote99 05-22-2015 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by nailer (Post 271763)
Unions are a means to rise some boats at the expense of others.

Go beyond the one liner. Who pays this expense? What are the broader results if this occurs?

Dondilion 05-22-2015 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 271767)
Go beyond the one liner.

Indeed, please do Sir Nailer and kindly surprise us. :D

icenine 05-22-2015 09:40 AM

The less money in people's pockets the worse the economy is. Unions helped bring about the American dream of homeownership by increasing wages back in the post-war days of the 40s and 50s.

I always laugh when a GS is anti-union. It is like a person with Medicare or Tricare being against socialized medicine.

nailer 05-22-2015 09:50 AM

^^^
Your incorrect inferences always make me laugh and I wasn't GS.

icenine 05-22-2015 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by nailer (Post 271787)
^^^
Your incorrect inferences always make me laugh and I wasn't GS.

That's why your so jealous then.;)

Pio1980 05-22-2015 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by nailer (Post 271763)
Unions are a means to rise some boats at the expense of others.

How so? I see them as a defensive response to industrial feudalism.

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nailer 05-22-2015 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by donquixote99 (Post 271767)
Go beyond the one liner. Who pays this expense? What are the broader results if this occurs?

Just classical supply/demand economics of which labor is a part. A union limits the supply of labor by limiting the workforce to it's members. The rest of the labor pool suffers and the suffering is so thin an addition it's not really noticeable until applied to a global labor market.


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