Originally Posted by
DreadWing
In a FREE economy (i.e. "capitalist"), elements of market forces (i.e. labor) are allowed to band together into "consortiums" to NEGOTIATE contracts governing how much compensation is owed for services rendered.
If you oppose the existence of worker unions, but are suspiciously content with the formation of corporate collective bargaining organizations (i.e. Regional Airline Association), you either don't know what you're talking about...or you're some kind of authoritarian monster.
That's all there is to it.
“Free economy (I.e. Capitalist)”
That’s comedic gold right there. Capitalism is the most anti-free economy to have existed, and it perpetuates itself on a fairy tale believed by its victims. Just as the landlords sold the enclosure movement to the people as for their own good, the moneyed and connected classes have constructed a system of exclusion, all the while telling you “freedom”. Barriers to entry, government enforcement of protection schemes and a centralized fiat currency benefit one class of people, and it sure as shoot ain’t labor.
Until wage slavery is ended and labor is free to compete on an open market to take its rightful place, unions are a necessary evil which only marginally rights the imbalance to labor that the capitalist structure has foisted upon it.