Liberal Forum

Otherwise, the system wouldn't work to provide unwarranted and inordinate contracts.  The businesses which contract the union labor would go out of business as their costs would exceed the optimum market price. Any attempt to exceed the optimum price would result in consumers purchasing less expensive non-union goods. Through the use of violence, intimidation and graft the unions force all industry producers to utilize only union labor ensuring the consumers have no choice but to pay higher prices than they would in a free labor market. You have expressed this exact motivation repeatedly in your proceeding posts, as if it is unfair for you to have to compete against outside free labor (immigrant or otherwise). This is where the disproportionate wages paid to union workers come from. For instance Ford, GM and Chrysler would all operate under identical union contracts and any attempts to hire non-union labor would result in violent picket lines and intimidation of anyone (so called scabs) who negotiated their own labor contracts. And again you have already expressed this sentiment time and again.