On Nov 26, 11:03 am, "F. Baum" wrote:
On Nov 26, 10:50 am, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:



First, you can only strike if you are part of a union. Federal laws
give unions protections that allow them to gain excess benefits,
beyond what supply and demand allow for. In short, when a union is
involved you do not have a free market (the employeer has his hands
tied and his nuts in a vice).

Robert, this post (Just like many of your other posts) shows that you
dont really have a grasp of the situation. If you dont like organized
labor thats fine, but you are making yourself look silly by painting
things with a broad brush.

In the U.S. all labor unions are exempt from anti-trust laws, so yes
the brush if broad. If employers all tried to get together and set
saleries they would end up in jail pretty quick. The same bahavior is
legal for unions. When a union decides to strike it has no basis in
the current market value of the labor, it is only based on who can
squeeze who's balls the most. Since labor can strike as long as they
want and the employers can't replace them (thereby prooving the labor
value in the market) guess who has the unfair advantage. Nothing free
market about it. If you think there is anything free market about it
you should say so intstead of making vague statements of "you don't
really have a grasp on the situation".
I've worked in the free market (non-union) all my life and I've never
experienced the horror that unions warn us about. I don't get abused
by my employer, I don't get offered below market saleries (which would
be fooling of a company).
If union supporters had the opportunity to run a bussiness for just 6
months they would change their minds. The idea that you can get
unlimited employees of any skill level for nearly free (if it were not
for unions and local laws) is such a fatasy. Why do you think
McDonalds pays above minimum wage, its not because they are just being
nice. Its because there is a market for labor and emploers must pay
what is necessary for people to want to do the job. Why did we just
pay $80K/year for our most recent SA, its not because we were just
being charitable to him. In your world we could just pay him minimum
wage and he'd be happy about it, but that's because union leaders
don't understand the demand side of the labor market.

-Robert, MBA