[SittinYonder]

An interesting read for later from the Mises Institute ping to myself.

[phoenix0468]

But didn't labor help all 'dem widdle babies be taken outta da factories and put back into school?

[phoenix0468]

Oh Yeah, the union I worked for for about three weeks helped it's workers keep their right to earn minimum wage, while taking $25 bucks a month from our salary. It was the Grocery and Service workers union, and I worked in an auto parts manufacturing plant. Go figure.

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[yankeedame]

From then on, if a majority of workers in a given bargaining unit chose to unionize, then that union represented all the workers and could require them either to join or at least to pay dues...

Also, thanks to FDR and his "Brain Trust" it was declared that unions could not compete for union members, e.g. if you were a widge maker, the UWMA (Union of Widget Makers of America) was the only union allowed, the only widget-makers union you could/must join.

Any and all completing/potential union organizations for widget makers {"The Widgetmaker Brotherhood", "The National Assoc. of Widgetmakers", "American Federated Union of Widget Makers", etc.)was strictly forbidden.

So not only was the American worker was forced to join/contribute to "the Union", he wasn't even given a choice of which union he joined.

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump!

[Intolerant in NJ]

...Economists Vedder and Gallaway find that New Deal labor legislation played a significant role in aggravating the unemployment problem...and the sad consequences continue today - back in FDR's days the US had a near monopoly on the capital and means of production which allowed American workers to demand and win ever higher wages without competition - now that labor bubble has burst, and employers are finding capable and educated workers in other countries who will sign on for much lower pay than those in this country have come to expect is due them - they've priced themselves out of the market, and their jobs won't be coming back for a long time, if ever....

[ryanjb2]

I know this feeling isn't entirely Conservative, but I get a good feeling when I see the poster listing the labor laws employers are required to hang up. When you dislike your employer, it is comforting to know that something limits his power.

[Jotmo]

Bump.

[Hank Rearden]

Government-subsidized extortion rackets.

I go out of my way to do whatever I can to piss off and harm union interests. Screw those thugs. Unions must die.

[Old Professer]

The simple version is that the union needs the laborer more than the laborer needs the union.

[First_Salute]

May interest.

[First_Salute]

You might want this for the collection.

[First_Salute]

Foundations of Prosperity, article by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, in The North American Review (Volume 228 Number 2), August 1929, posted to Free Republic, Dec. 12, 2004, by primeval patriot.