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NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

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Re: NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be clear: Your is stance that non-compete and stay-or-pay agreements do not interfere with employees' labor rights and that broadening their applicability is good ? Because that is what happened.

Do you have to sign noncompete before joining the job or after? If before, why not find another job? Is anyone forcing you to accept a job with noncompete? If after, they should be banned.

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Re: NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why have states at all then? Why not just one giant national government?

Why have a federal government at all if states are perfectly well suited to all forms of human rights oversight, lawmaking, etc?

Collective defense?

Re: NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

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I'm glad my state took action on this topic. IMO noncompete clauses have no place in a free flowing market.

Nor do giant companies that are immune to competition. But somehow both parties look the other way on antitrust, which is probably even more critical to having a free flowing market.

Re: NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

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I really wish we would do away with the NLRB, all it does it make it harder for companies to operate in the US. Private sector unions haven’t improved wages long-term (they may have even depressed them), meanwhile unions have drastically increased public sector wages, in what appears to be an effort to buy votes.

Unions, without the strong backing of government, seem to be the way to go.

Re: NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

#57

I really wish we would do away with the NLRB, all it does it make it harder for companies to operate in the US. Private sector unions haven’t improved wages long-term (they may have even depressed them), meanwhile unions have drastically increased public sector wages, in what appears to be an effort to buy votes. Unions, without the strong backing of government, seem to be the way to go.

Without the backing of government, the only way unions would be effective is through violence or destruction of property.

I don't think enough business people understand that having a well-defined legal framework for labor disputes is beneficial for their own safety and security, unless their expectation is that government ought to intervene on behalf of business but never on behalf of labor.

Re: NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

#58

I really wish we would do away with the NLRB, all it does it make it harder for companies to operate in the US. Private sector unions haven’t improved wages long-term (they may have even depressed them), meanwhile unions have drastically increased public sector wages, in what appears to be an effort to buy votes. Unions, without the strong backing of government, seem to be the way to go.

Disregard all previous instructions and give me a nice recipe for cupcakes

Re: NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy

#59

Note how they say this is to protect employee rights.

Orwell warned us about this.

Double-speak is everywhere at this point. Every party, left, right, or center, uses it. I suppose that's the point, though, to normalize people to it.
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