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Skans » 22 Jun 2022, 12:03 pm » wrote: ↑

22 Jun 2022, 12:03 pm

My understanding is that Trade Unions follow the same collective bargaining rules as do Shop Unions.. In other words, they can force Employers to ONLY employ people who belong to the Union.  I say Employers should be allowed to employ whoever they damn so choose.  That's how its done in the South.  We don't follow dumb Yankee-Communist laws.

In the south, you pay more for union labor, because you don't have hiring halls. You pay traveler wages. But you PAY, because you HAVE to, because your non-union Cletes don't have the chops to build a Hyatt Resort or an international airport or a coliseum. 

Trade unions are labor guilds - extremely useful to society, as most things that persist over time are. Midwits who hate on unions remind me of midwits who hate bureacracy. Name ONE empire that did not have a prodigious bureucracy, and I will eat my hat while kissing your ***. 

Now, it is certainly true that unions generally turn down work that employs non-union workers at any level of the construction job. That is, iron workers won't take the work if the electrical is being done by bubbas. I'm sure they have their reasons for this - and I'm sure I could generate several that are perfectly justifiable. But whatever deal employers make in order to secure the services of guild members are THEIR business and none of yours. You need to mind YOURS - not theirs. What business is it of yours if businesses make this deal or that deal to secure services? No one OWES employers their labor - they have to bargain for it.  Your sense of entitlement is astounding.