There's a fair bit of academic research on unions which basically says medium sized unions are the worst for unemployment and such. If they're small they have little enough power that acting like dicks screws their company and they lose out and if they cover most of the economy (i.e. Scandinavian style centralised negotiations) then they know that pushing up costs just increases inflation by an equivalent amount. So the big US auto unions are the worst size possible.Norseman wrote:You know in Norway there are centralized negotiations between the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise and the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Union. If they can't hash something out between them there can be strikes, but only under certain circumstances, and if they can't come to a reasonable conclusion the government may force arbitration or even dictate terms. Of course this assumes a government that is scrupulously honest and nigh impossible to corrupt, so it probably wouldn't work in the USA.
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