After years of helping unions take credit for every worker gain and offering unionization as the answer to every worker complaint, that effort has escalated under “union man,” Joe Biden. Now, his Treasury Department has released “its most comprehensive ever look at the role that labor unions play in the American economy,” just before Labor Day. Included near the top of its cheerleading litany of the supposed advantages to unions is that higher union wages “means workers at nonunionized firms see increased wages too,” which is central to their assertion that unions benefit all workers, not just union workers.
However, that claim is false.
It is true that unions enjoy a host of special government-granted powers and treatment (e.g., unique exemptions from antitrust laws) to prevent other workers willing to do the same work for less from competing with union employees. That is a form of collusion that, done by any […]
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