09-05-2002, 12:38 AM
Quote:they know what the work they do is worth
They are worth exactly what someone is willing to pay them of their own freewill. Unions that don't allow non-union people to compete for jobs, or have non-union employees in the same company, allow price fixing and racketeering. They inflate the wages unnaturally, which make the companies pay more for less workers (leaving alone the lower productivity of union workers as a whole) than they would normally have to, which increases overhead, lowers profit, slows growth, and therefore creates less jobs.
Unions are a crutch for the unskilled, unagressive sloths who can't do their own negotiations.