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Tahoe
02-05-2009, 06:25 PM
Mxy did you ever hear these arguments that states with high numbers of union labor have high unemployment rates? I'm not sold on it, but it was a lil interesting to listen to it. It was some sort of study over a long period of time though

I thought maybe the correlation was more of those industries that typically use union labor have been hit hardest, but I'm not sure about that either.

Vinny
02-05-2009, 06:41 PM
Labor unions can act to artificially influence the natural labor market and thus probably have an indirect effect on unemployment.

Hermy
02-05-2009, 07:16 PM
Yeah, this is an "of course" Tahoe. But the workers of that state will always make more in cumulative income than non union.

Uncle Mxy
02-05-2009, 11:02 PM
Mxy did you ever hear these arguments that states with high numbers of union labor have high unemployment rates? I'm not sold on it, but it was a lil interesting to listen to it. It was some sort of study over a long period of time though

I thought maybe the correlation was more of those industries that typically use union labor have been hit hardest, but I'm not sure about that either.
I dunno... hadn't heard about it.

At the moment, unemployment rates are getting to be too high everywhere. South Carolina has 9.5% unemployment, and that's not a big union state.