The Rise and Fall of Hope and Change

The Rise and Fall of Hope and Change



Alexis de Toqueville

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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The United States Capitol Building

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The Constitutional Convention

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George Washington at Valley Forge

George Washington at Valley Forge


Friday, January 6, 2012

The Union Difference: A Primer on What Unions Do to the Economy

From The Heritage foundation and The Capitol Research Center:


Labor





The Union Difference: A Primer on What Unions Do to the Economy



by James Sherk



Capital Research Center



January 05, 2012



Labor Watch





What unions do has hardly changed since the end of World War II. They still try to organize workers and win pay increases and benefits for their members by controlling the supply of jobs at a company or in an industry. But while the union movement insists on using traditional methods to organize workers and negotiate with employers, the American economy and workforce is undergoing very dramatic changes. New technologies and expanding global trade are weakening union attempts to maintain job cartels. Unions are driving investment and jobs away from the industries and states where they predominate. The union movement has to develop a new model for doing business. If it can’t or won’t, the answer to the question “What do unions do?” will soon be: “Not much.”





URL: capitalresearch.org/2012/01/the-union-difference-a-primer-on-what-unions-do-to-the-economy/#more-10005







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