Posted on 09/03/2018 2:31:20 PM PDT by Perseverando
Collective bargaining is the labor equivalent of price fixing. Suppliers can’t get away with price fixing, manufacturers can’t get away with price fixing, wholesalers can’t get away with price fixing, and neither can retailers. The only segment of the manufacturing chain that it’s legal in ...is labor. The only reason it’s legal for them is the 1935 Labor Relations Act, which specifically granted them the right to bargain collectively.
Until then collective bargaining was in violation of the Sherman Antitust Act. But since the NLRA was enacted after the Sherman Act, where those two conflict, the later enacted bill takes precendence. So the net effect of the NLRA was to exempt the practice of collective bargaining from anti-trust laws.
The NLRA, I might add, was passed during the Great Depression by two demoncrat-controlled houses of congress (with veto-proof majorities in both chambers) and signed by a demoncrat president (who also was America’s first Fascist Socialist president). It should be repealed so that unions also are subject to the same laws as every other aspect of business. Doing so would harelip Nancy Pelosilly, and that alone is reason enough to do it. Besides, labor unions are nothing more than small-scale socialism, and no free market is worthy of the name when one and only one link in the chain can engage in lawful price fixing.
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I scabbed at the deli in a striking Foodtown market for a couple of weeks while I was between jobs back in the 70s.
I was last out one evening except for the manager. There were only three cars in the parking lot; his, mine and one around the corner of the building. When I pulled out I noticed that the car around the corner started moving, with no lights on, and it began to follow me. I took a couple of turns I’d not normally take on the way home to confirm I was being followed, then instead of going home I drove to police headquarters. I parked and exited the car and “invited” the occupants of the tailing vehicle to stop. They took off.
No, No...it's "You godda problem widdat"?
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