It is immoral for government to stand between a willing employer and a willing employee by dictating the terms of employment. It is likewise immoral for government to compel employers to keep employees who are refusing to show up for work, that is, striking. And it is a denial of basic freedoms of political behavior and conscience for government to force unwilling workers to join and pay dues to an agency which they oppose as a condition of employment. American union laws do all three. They violate the right of people to pursue gainful employment, and not to contribute to causes they detest. It is vain to pretend union laws are a protection of the worker against the employer, because the laws oppress both parties by forbidding people from coming to their own agreements outside of federally-mediated management-union agreements. An example of the oppressive nature of coercive union membership is my own home town’s moral hero Carol Katter, a committed Roman Catholic who was told by the local public school union that she had to choose between supporting abortions with her union dues or converting to another religion. She fought the law and she won in court. You can read this amazing story here or just do a google search on it. The immorality of union laws goes beyond just the unconscionable powers they have been given by law, however. Take, for example, the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB), which interfered with people’s personal business in a shocking 500 cases without having been given the legal authority to do so. When government decides to use law to interfere with the right of employers and employees to negotiate settlements or to go their own separate ways, the government is behaving badly. But when a government body simply ignores law and forces its illegal decisions on people, the government is behaving despotically. Thankfully, the Supreme Court intervened this time and stopped an unconscionable injustice from being imposed on workers and businesspeople. It is unquestionably a victory that courts have acknowledged the wrongful nature the school union’s behavior against Carol Katter and now of the dictatorial behavior of the NLRB, but the deeper problem is that our legal system allows interference between the attempts of both employers and employees to reach mutually profitable arrangements.
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It is immoral for government to stand between a willing employer and a willing employee by dictating the terms of employment. It is likewise immoral for government to compel employers to keep employees who are refusing to show up for work, that is, striking. And it is a denial of basic freedoms of political behavior and conscience for government to force unwilling workers to join and pay dues to an agency which they oppose as a condition of employment. American union laws do all three. They violate the right of people to pursue gainful employment, and not to contribute to causes they detest. It is vain to pretend union laws are a protection of the worker against the employer, because the laws oppress both parties by forbidding people from coming to their own agreements outside of federally-mediated management-union agreements. An example of the oppressive nature of coercive union membership is my own home town’s moral hero Carol Katter, a committed Roman Catholic who was told by the local public school union that she had to choose between supporting abortions with her union dues or converting to another religion. She fought the law and she won in court. You can read this amazing story here or just do a google search on it. The immorality of union laws goes beyond just the unconscionable powers they have been given by law, however. Take, for example, the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB), which interfered with people’s personal business in a shocking 500 cases without having been given the legal authority to do so. When government decides to use law to interfere with the right of employers and employees to negotiate settlements or to go their own separate ways, the government is behaving badly. But when a government body simply ignores law and forces its illegal decisions on people, the government is behaving despotically. Thankfully, the Supreme Court intervened this time and stopped an unconscionable injustice from being imposed on workers and businesspeople. It is unquestionably a victory that courts have acknowledged the wrongful nature the school union’s behavior against Carol Katter and now of the dictatorial behavior of the NLRB, but the deeper problem is that our legal system allows interference between the attempts of both employers and employees to reach mutually profitable arrangements.
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