> Every benefit modern workers enjoy was earned for them by Union labor.
Really? I dont remember my stock options being paid for in blood, or the
extra vacation days above the minimum either. You need to learn that supply
and demand work for LABOR as well as products. If labor is short, they HAVE
to up pay and benefits to keep workers. Yeah, it was tough at first, but I
put forth that if the labor movement had just let the industries grow until
there was a labor shortage, you would have had the same result and probably
the workers would have had far MORE benefits then today. By artificially
extracting resources from the buisnesses, they caused an aberation in the
market that caused buisnesses to grow more slowly, thereby preventing them
from producing jobs as quckly. This resulted in the balance of supply and
demand of labor taking even longer to come into balance. They cut their own
throats.
>
> I sit here less than a block from the scene of the Haymarket square
> riot where union organizers were framed then hung for the terrible
> crime of trying to establish the 8 hour workday.
>
>
> Brian
I never said that all the old buisness owners were angels, but I dont hear
you telling the story of how teamsters were gentle non-violent protestors
either. How many people did they kill or maim for crossing picket lines
(when those people crossing were just trying to make enough to feed their
kids)?
Everone that wants to slam these "Evil Capitalists" need to be kissing their
feet for providing jobs for all those people that would have otherwise
starved. Buisnesses no more set the price of labor then they do for
sneakers.
Jerry
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