• Stern@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Imagine being pro union but also somehow libertarian. Fuckin wild. Do they not realize that in a libertarian system anyone trying to form a union would be fired immediately?

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      4 hours ago

      I’m not sure I understand your point exactly. What exactly does the libertarian philosophy say about unions? A union is essentially just people who choose to associate with eachother and act as a single entity under an employer; in a free market, their bargaining power would be proportional to their size ­— its growth would impact the pool of potential employees that could be hired outside of the union. There could be, for example, laws in place which prevent a company from firing a union, which a libertarian would generally oppose, but a libertarian needn’t necessarily oppose the concept of unions, imo.

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      18 hours ago

      Maybe they want small government…so they can fight the government with their union?

      It’s a bit like saying that you want to fight Mike Tyson, but only if you remove his arms and vision.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      Not if the Taft-Hartley Act is abolished. They usually don’t know about that regulation so I start there.

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      19 hours ago

      They’d be fired, evicted from their home, have their bank account closed, and get banned from entering most retail stores.