Free trade does NOT mean: a slim majority of people can muscle their way into your work place, industry or business, and take away your individual rights to compete independently, form voluntary contracts, and interact with consumers and investors freely, as a worker, vendor, or service provider.
Unions, “organized labor” are protectionst rackets which control supply, fix price, and block entry by more able workers. Their sole purpose is to BLOCK entry, use inefficient seniority rules to promote and overpay mediocre staff, and to funnel a % of mandated dues skimmed off the unsuspecting and unwilling, to the DNC as steady ‘rat rents.
In the public sector, this means taxpayers in general are FORCED to pay taxes a chunck of which become union dues handed to Democrats.
UNIONS are not “protectors of democracy and freedom” - they are supporters of majoritarian tyranny various sectors of a free economy - a slim majority of socialist (compulsory union) people (’organizers’) act to suppress the free trade rights of others in what are ideally decentralized free markets.
They are too cowardly to simply QUIT a job - en mass - if they don’t like the pay & work tasks - and take their little group of disgruntled ‘activists’ off to another job — or go open their own “socially just” firm, and compete with the one they just quit.
No, they turn over the card table, if they don’t like free trade, and impose tyranny on the entire sector.
This hurts more able entrants (competitors), hurts consumers with high costs and stagnant service, and hurts investors (retired people, who put their savings on the line, to cut costs and finance a great product for the economy).
U N I O N S = C O W A R D S & T Y R A N T S!
Good post, that’s exactly what unions became many years ago. At one time there was a genuine need for them but that time has long since passed.