Friday, December 14, 2012

Buchanan and "The Fall of theHouse of Labor"

Pat is wrong about depressed wages with "right to work." Aviation Safeguards Association received higher wages when they left SEIU.

On the other hand, labor power has done more harm than good for current employees. Hostess Brand went bankrupt this year because they could not sustain long-term work actions from union interests. Plus the fifty-plus collective bargaining agreements, the federal regulations from the Department of Labor, and the inflexibility on behalf of union leaders helped seal their end.

Classical liberal economist William Hutt has documented that union power hurts commerce and free trade, puts people out of work.

Pat is right about "Big Labor is Dead" -- he is wrong about "Free Trade is Bad." Free Trade made "Right to Work" a thriving possibility.

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