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Revision as of 01:17, February 26, 2011
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== Private Sector Unions ==
== Private Sector Unions ==
Within current market and legal checks, collective bargaining for private sector unions can perform a helpful market function in ensuring that employers keep up with market wages and working conditions as expeditiously as possible. If private sector workers do not like the pay, benefits, and working conditions offered to them by an employer, any strike by them would be a strike against the company. However, a union strike against the company may force the services it provides to be shut down while the employer(s) and a group of union employees negotiate the pay, benefits, and working conditions through collective bargaining. Under current law, there are market and legal checks on private sector unions to keep them from abusing the company.{{fact}} The ultimate limit if they push too far is that their company will be driven out of business, which in most cases will happen when management fails to do its job in resisting excessive union demands.
Within current market and legal checks, collective bargaining for private sector unions can perform a helpful market function in ensuring that employers keep up with market wages and working conditions as expeditiously as possible. If private sector workers do not like the pay, benefits, and working conditions offered to them by an employer, any strike by them would be a strike against the company. However, a union strike against the company may force the services it provides to be shut down while the employer(s) and a group of union employees negotiate the pay, benefits, and working conditions through collective bargaining. Under current law, there are market and legal checks on private sector unions to keep them from abusing the public. If private sector unions push too far, then their company will likely be driven out of business, which in most cases will happen when management fails to do its job in resisting excessive union demands. If management does resist, it happens in the form of locating business elsewhere to a better business climate.
Such was the case in 2009 for [[Boeing]] management in their decision to move a new 787 assembly plant from a potential location in [[Washington State]] to a more business friendly environment, after Washington's costly workers' compensation system created a competitive disadvantage that the company could no longer afford.<ref name=biggov>Amber Gunn. [http://biggovernment.com/agunn/2009/10/31/boeing-heads-south-for-better-business-climate-washington-state-politicians-are-surprised/ Boeing Heads South For Better Business Climate: Washington State Politicians Are Surprised?], BigGovernment.com ([[Breitbart.com]]), October 31, 2009.</ref><ref>Erin Covey. [http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=186920 Lawmakers worried unions will push Boeing out], July 8, 2009.</ref> When Boeing's Seattle workers wouldn't compromise with their excessive union demands, Boeing workers in [[North Charleston]] seized the opportunity and voted overwhelmingly to disband their union.<ref>[[Michelle Malkin]]. [http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/14/boeing-workers-vote-to-decertify-union/ Boeing workers vote to decertify union], MichelleMalkin.com, September 14, 2009.</ref> They were rewarded by Boeing with a new 787 assembly plant in Charleston, [[South Carolina|S.C.]], rather than Everett, WA.<ref name=biggov/>
== References ==
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