Bob,
I’ll be curious to see if you get any reaction to your favorable citation of workers’ unions in a pro-individualist discussion of individualism.
As it happens, I did get some response — at least, I got one comment from David Denholm, beginning Including ‘workers’ unions’ as an example of voluntary cooperation is completely inappropriate
and then reading me the Blockhead script on the evils of coercive unionism.
I reply at length on the form of unionism I defend, along with an extended discussion of the history of the NLRB system, the radical anti-statist unions that preceded the NLRB, and the confusion involved in the common idiot notion that closed shop contracts, union shop contracts, or strikes (?!) are, per se, exercises of coercion, rather than (as in fact they are) hardball negotiating tactics that could perfectly well exist in a freed market, and which were put into use well before Wagner.
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