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If a police union demands too much, they don't threaten their employer with going out of business the way private sector unions do. The private sector union is naturally constrained to saying, "We want to help you build a reliable business for the long term; treat us fairly and we will do good work." Sometimes, of course, they do better at this than other times, but it is never in a union's interest to impair the bus…
> but it is never in a union's interest to impair the business to the point where the jobs no longer exist. Yet, that’s what they do. The Packard car company is one such victim. Unions bankrupted Twinkies. The work rules imposed in union contracts required the company that makes Twinkies, which also makes Wonder Bread, to deliver these two products to stores in separate trucks. Moreover, truck drivers were not allowe…
They have given the non-landed class of people a life that even a century ago was unheard of.
Countries that have decent levels of union involvement have much better working conditions and standard of living than countries that don't.
Blaming unions for failed companies is incredibly flimsy argument against unions as a whole.
Sure there are unions that contributed to the collapse of some companies, people make mistakes.
Bad management is a far more leading cause of business collapse than unions.