Washington AG Rob McKenna: "Collective Bargaining is a Right." Not!

Red County ^ | April 6, 2011 | Matthew Burke

[TheFreedomPoster]

Private businesses have customers that do business with them by choice. The customer indirectly, yet ultimately, pays those wages and benefits to the workers. They have the freedom of choice as to whether they want to give their money to ABC Company or XYZ Company for whatever services or products they offer. If the prices are too high, due to labor costs, they have the freedom to look elsewhere. Governments take money from their "customers" (taxpayers) by force. The only alternative are fines or imprisonment...

[supercat]

People do have a right to bargain collectively. If a group of people decide by consensus that none of them will work except under terms which all would find agreeable, those people have the right to decline any employment not meeting those terms.

Unfortunately, the term "collective bargaining" is used to refer to the ability of some workers in a field to deny other workers or prospective workers the ability to bargain individually. I wish opponents of the rackets could better publicize that.

[freekitty]

No it’s not.

[IYellAtMyTV]

Yeah, this is what passes for a republican in my state.

crap.

[TexasRepublic]

Exactly. If a group wants to say, “We won’t work” that is their private affair until they say I can’t work either; then the trouble will start. Y’all do whatever you want, just leave me the hell alone, or else.

Labor unions are just a step away from a Soviet Union.