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Wm James
 
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Default Starbucks Obstructing First Union Vote

On 11 Jun 2004 09:51:46 -0400, (G*rd*n) wrote:

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>> Are you saying that youcan't get a better price for your labor on the
>> open market, and that you need a thug organization to keep your price
>> artificially high?

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>A truly open market is open to the possibility of cabals --
>contracts between suppliers to limit or regulate the supply,
>and thus regulate the price. In itself, there is nothing
>thuggish about such an arrangement. In some cases the
>overall price may actually be lowered by such an
>arrangement. Anecdote on request.


Of course it is. So? Are you and your neighbors not free to choose
not to shop at the local market for bread until they lower the price?
Why should it be any different for people buying anything else,
including labor?

William R. James