It's one thing for a voluntary union of workers to increase information available to workers concerning job conditions, it's another thing for the union to destroy the company that hires the workers.
A libertarian can only support a union that abides by the Libertarian Pledge. Today's unions typically rely on State coercion to stay in power.
Reisman points out what others have noted, that General Motors has brought many of its problems on itself, apart from the UAW. Reisman accurately indicts the "spinelessness and gutlessness on the part of businessmen" who "no longer have any principles. Indeed, they would project contempt at the very thought of acting on any kind of moral or political principle."
Reisman's remarks may well apply to the campaigns of many libertarian candidates:
Any business firm today that tried to make a principled stand on such a matter as throwing out a legally recognized labor union would have to do so in the knowledge that its action was a futile gesture that would serve only to cost it dearly. And a corporation that did this would undoubtedly also be embroiled in endless lawsuits by many of its own stockholders blaming it for the losses the government imposed on it.
Tomorrow I will be singing with The California Desert Chorale at the Annenberg Center in Rancho Mirage, California. See you there!
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