[central_va]

I am talking about PRIVATE sector unions. They aren’t driving anyone’s costs up. Get a clue. I am not in a union but I know a scapegoat when I see one. A straw man for the gloBULList.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Unions are anti-competitive by their very nature. They stifle innovation and initiative AS A BASIC FUNCTION OF THEIR EXISTENCE.

I don't know how any sane person could claim otherwise.

[IMR 4350]

Yes they are.

I worked in a shipyard that had unions, I didn't join.

We were building destroyers for the navy.

The cost of those destroyers were apx 1/3 more than they would have been had it not been union.

On union jobs, if you need X number of people to do the job, the union will require you to hire not just the X number of people that are needed to do the job, but also Y number of extra people.

The extra cost of people that aren't needed is passed on just like the cost of the people that are needed.