[rlmorel]

I really hate painting people with the same brush. One can hardly fault people for getting as much or more as they are worth.

Except that union wages and their ramifications are not subject to free market pressures to get wages for what a product is worth.

If a football player wants to make a certain amount of money, they can ask for it at free agency, and if they are worth it, some team will sign them, knowing that their fans may well pay extra ticket prices to see the athelete, or whatever.

Unions are impervious to these pressures. The first indication that free markets will not support their extortionist practices is when the company goes under.

The union organizers just pick up and leave town. Funny how their jobs always seem to find a way to survive.

[eleni121]

union wages and their ramifications are not subject to free market pressures to get wages for what a product is worth

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Bingo! no matter how mediocre a worker is he/she gets the same hourly wage as the guy who works his butt off. The govt unions are worst in that respect.

Unions are the religion of the mediocre.