Do labor unions promote mediocrity of the masses and cast an economic burden on society collectively?

Answer 1

Short answer: NO

Answer 2

Yes and No. Labor unions do promote mediocrity at best. Somecases less than that. The promote the lowest common value, the least. Mediocrity is the least acceptable. They promote less than that.

No, they don't place a burden on the rest of society. Every business has the option of closing it doors and moving its plant. Before signing labor aggreements that are not in the long term interest of the company.

The U.S. automobile manufacturers sold out to the labor unions and signed contracts that were not in the long term interests of the companies and its only a matter of time until they are all out of business. Their pension contracts are now such a liability that it makes their cars uncompetitive. As I understand it the cost of paying pensions and retirement benefits is equal to and in some cases greater than the cost of labor to produce the cars. Can you say doomed. Sad thing, or I guess poetic justice, once the car companies go under all those collecting benefits from the car companies will have sucked the companies dry and will have nothing.

Answer 3

Autoworkers in Germany, Japan have unions too, but the problem with big three is not 100% Unions fault it was lobbying congress in the early 1980s for protectistic barriers for the Japanese that imparied the domestic producers to reform thier assembly lines faster it part of the reason. Add in, heathcare, pension, poor management, marketing it compounds the problem. Hourly Toyota, GM workers get paid the same, but benefits you get thru GM are Generous Motors with offfering free healthcare, free drugs for retirees for years, and big pension payouts, but still if they had better management they would probadly would not be in such bad shape as they are in now. Unions distort incentives, but Unions know the company cant go broke or else the union grunts out of jobs. Unions in general were good in the early 20th century when you did not know if you live to see weekend because of lack of safety for the workers.

Things changed for the most part in industries and union hurt companies bottom lines, but still gotta be realist here to know that unions will always be aroud now even if robots were mixed in working with Humans. Because need that sense of beloning, and fair balance between investors, workers, comsumers.

Answer 4

Mediocrity (def).ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding [syn: averageness]
Maybe it is because there are no labor unions in Lake Wobegon that everybody can be above average there.

Answer 5

They don't promote mediocrity, they do much worse:

1 defend failure = TEACHERS UNIONS
2 remove incentives = last hired > first fired
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