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The Case Against Collective Bargaining May 16, 2022
About 10 years ago, I wrote a series of essays presenting the case against collective bargaining. I didn't date them, but they seem to have been written in 2010 and 2011. I posted the essays on this website, but they are a little hard to find and I don't know if anyone ever read them. In May of 2022, I tidied them up a bit, primarily increasing the font size and changing the background color. This was the introduction to the old version:
The reason I am re-introducing them is that they are pretty good. They are also interesting in that I put all that work into them just for fun, without a plan for getting them published. Finally, at least one of them gets attention on the Internet. A monthly report from Google for the steveharrypublicpolicy.com website says one of the ways people find it is with a search on "fair wages." One of the top results of that search is the essay Market Wage vs. Fair Wage. That essay is even higher on the list of results if you search for "market wage vs fair wage" or "fair wage vs market wage".
Some of this stuff is out dated. The economy was still suffering from the Great Recession, which began in 2008. GM and Daimler Chrysler had been bailed out by the federal government. Unemployment was high. Congress never did pass the Employee Free Choice Act. So in one sense, the essays are historical.
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