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Originally Posted by bhunter
Well, we've seen what unions did to every industry that they touched. Unions simply can not efficiently compete in a global economy without needing costs and barriers to competition imposed by the state. Unions, an anachronism that chokes innovation and builds stifling bureaucracies.
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Trade union membership, per se, has little or no bearing on competitiveness. Consider for a moment that Germany has twice the level of trade union membership as the US, but is the second leading nation in the world in terms of exports. As for it stifling innovation, the German auto industry (highly unionized) leads the world in innovation.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/la...ion-membership
That said, I still don't agree with the need or the desirability of public sector unions.