Scott Walker has announced a far-reaching package of labor reforms going far beyond the cautious Republican norm, including abolishing the NLRB and transferring its power to other agencies, eliminating federal unions, making right-to-work the default federal labor law regime unless states opt out, repealing Davis-Bacon, and more. [Reason, Associated Press, Hot Air interview] Union leaders, quite understandably from their perspective, lost no time in speaking out loudly against Walker’s ideas. Why, one wonders, don’t more business people speak out as loudly against the ideas of Bernie Sanders?
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Good, I’m glad. Guys like Trumka deserve every bit of pain.
And “Public Employee Unions” are a stupid idea to begin with, for reasons which are all too obvious.
He has my vote.
To answer the question:
“Why, one wonders, don’t more business people speak out as loudly against the ideas of Bernie Sanders?”
Because a strike is less costly to a union than a lockout is to a buisness, Or better said, if a business speaks in favor of an anti-union position, the union is likey to come up with all sorts of impediments to productive work, up to and including a strike, any of which would cost the business money. But if a business were to retaliate with say a lockout or similar action, the result would still be lost production, which would cost them money. So no matter what the business does it will still cost them, So we are left with them funneling money to the Chamber of Commerce and similar idiot savants and pray their message gets through.