Another Union-led Attempt to Kill Competition

The Growth Stock Wire ^ | 2/25/2012 | SA Research

[econjack]

The city of Los Angeles is determined to put 50-60 employers straight out of business for the greater good. And it just so happens the greater good benefits labor unions most of all.

For three years now, the L.A. government, with heavy backing from labor unions, has been working on a proposal to carve the city into 11 franchise zones. Once it does this, it'll assign a monopoly to one waste-hauling company for all the businesses in each zone. There are 50-60 waste haulers who regularly pick trash up at businesses in the city. The franchise zone proposal will put most of them out of business. They will be legally forbidden to sell their services in the city of Los Angeles. Residential trash pickup would be unaffected by the proposal.

The plan is being pushed by a union front group called the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE). The LAANE says competition is too cutthroat… meaning many small waste haulers aren't unionized, so it wants to put 11 big unionized waste haulers in charge of removing all the trash from businesses in L.A.

[econjack]

I am so fed up with bureaucrats thinking they can do a better job of making market decisions than the market can. In the end, you and I pay higher prices and see a less efficient allocation of resources. Idiots!

[sthguard]

The link goes back to your email (and thus doesn’t load). Do you have another URL for it?

[Colonial Warrior]

Mind Numbed O-Bots!!!!

[SubMareener]

Mrs. Submareener and I watched “Atlas Shrugged” last night and it was frightening how much of what Anne Rand wrote is happening now.

[TXnMA]

Unions and organized crime — but I repeat myself...

[Moltke]

You should read the book - you’d see that her name is Ayn Rand. :-) (And Ayn must be spinning in her grave over the abomination the film is. At least the first 20 minutes or so - I turned it off at that point.)