ALL UNIONS should be VOLUNTARY!
We need to ABOLISH their LEGALLY SANCTIONED MONOPOLY on labor!
We do not allow businesses to have monopolies over markets because it prevents markets from delivering the greatest value. People understand that monopolies can be very harmful. The same principle should apply to labor.
Any trade or professional worker should be allowed to organize into a union if each member chooses to join voluntarily, but if someone else wants that job without joining the union, that should be their right. The goal of any company should be to offer good enough working terms that their employees do not feel the need for a union.
Every good thing a union ever did to stem genuine abusive labor practices, could still be done with voluntary unions.
If unions were voluntary, we would still have unions when and where they are truly necessary, but the vast majority of employers would be motivated to become better employers, leading to less adversarial relationships between labor and management.
The measure of good labor conditions should not be HOW MANY unionized workers there are, but HOW FEW, by their own choice.
ps: The truth is that most true monopolies can only exist because of government interference in free markets, labor union monopolies over labor are just one more example.
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