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Re:Why is this little construction crane illegal in New York... by kelnos on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:30PM (#13973816)
I think it's just a lot more nuanced than that.

Unions have done amazing things to increase worker pay and benefits up from horribly inadequate levels, and to increase safety standards. But they've also don't some pretty bad anti-competitive, rent-seeking, protectionist things as well. Getting rid of them certainly isn't the answer, but letting them do bad things is unacceptable as well.

No one is saying "everything that unions do is bad and they should go away". But it's equally naive to suggest that unions never do bad things at all.

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Re:Why is this little construction crane illegal in New York... by ubernostrum on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:18AM (#13977293)
No one is saying "everything that unions do is bad and they should go away". But it's equally naive to suggest that unions never do bad things at all.

So why is it that we get something like a thousand "look at this CORRUPT OVERPAID LAZY RENT-SEEKING UNION" stories for every "this union did something kind of OK, I guess" story?

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