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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Wage Rates: Unions, Minimum Wage Laws, and Employer Oligopoly
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 18:07:50 EST
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> You may economically "prove" to your own satisfaction that unions are bad.
> The reality is that workers must organize because management is already
> organized....

The point is not to show that unions are "bad", but that if unions
insist on establishing minimum-wage requirements (when the minimum
wage is is above equalibrium), the consequences are that some people
will be unemployed.

This is fact, not economic theory.

The author of that description did not say this was "bad."  He was
just describing the way things are.
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Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam