But you are talking like Unions are not a part of the Free Market.
They are completely a part of it.
A FREE market means that workers are FREE to form a Union and companies are FREE to ignore them if they wish. Thing is in both cases that FREEdom is only from legal proscription. It is not freedom from consequences.
So if you feel your employer is taking advantage of you feel free to form a Union, your employer is free to choose whether he wishes to acknowledge and engage in collective bargaining with said union or ignore it but he has to recognize that both choices have consequences and costs and they will have to bear those costs on their own because they are the ones who made their employees unhappy enough to want to form a union.
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Date: 17/2/11 19:37 (UTC)They are completely a part of it.
A FREE market means that workers are FREE to form a Union and companies are FREE to ignore them if they wish. Thing is in both cases that FREEdom is only from legal proscription. It is not freedom from consequences.
So if you feel your employer is taking advantage of you feel free to form a Union, your employer is free to choose whether he wishes to acknowledge and engage in collective bargaining with said union or ignore it but he has to recognize that both choices have consequences and costs and they will have to bear those costs on their own because they are the ones who made their employees unhappy enough to want to form a union.