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Originally Posted by mattdavis11
That's what you get with unions.
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Naw. All you get with unions is the ability to bargain collectively. Longshoremen benefit from even more fundamental forces. Market forces. Leverage. Same thing that allows the shipping companies to bend the rest of the world over. The cost of shipping a container has grown tenfold just recently. Longshoremen had nuthin' to do with that.
And with the massive interruption of the international supply chains, the winners (besides the shipping companies) will be the companies that had already won their industry championships. The losers will be the mom-and-pops. As always. If there is one thing that limits opportunity for small businesses it is....big businesses.
Whining about unions is as dumb as liberals whining about conservatives and vice versa. This is what big businesses want you to believe is the problem.