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• “To me, only a Wal-Mart fully unionized is tolerable, and only just.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Competition Works

• “Several tests indicate that this relationship is * not* found in unionized school districts.”

  Teacher Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “I know that a lot of you have a policy of only staying in unionized hotels when you travel even if they are sometimes a little more expensive or not so conveniently located.”

  The Huffington Post: Billy Kimball: God Bless You, Big Campaign Spenders!

• “Thus the current funding system -- which BTW is standard in unionized big urban school systems across the US -- outright screws the poor by giving their schools much less real money per student, and the lower-quality staff that goes with it.”

  Public School Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “One bonus of the TSA employees being unionized is that there are no summary firings because someone pissed off their boss.”

  Senator blocks TSA confirmation over union dispute

• “How else to explain that their bill outlawing secret ballots for votes on whether a shop becomes unionized is titled "The Employee Free Choice Act".”

  Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength

• “Happily, for most longer-term unionized entertainment workers -- and I'm here referring to people laboring under IA, WGA, SAG, or DGA contracts -- they end up getting the best of multiple worlds.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

• “Obviously, the decline in unionized heavy industry jobs hit rust belt Ohio harder than growing California, which had fewer unionized heavy industry jobs to lose.”

  The Uselessness of Economists on Immigration:

• “No. My parents were teachers, my wife is a teacher, and I was a teacher, all of us union members in unionized school system, and the argument you’re making sounds utterly absurd to me – likely either uninformed nonsense or a very unusual & anomalous situation.”

  Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions

• “The entire point of being unionized is to compel ownership to bargain with you alone — and not with anyone who happens by on the street — allowing you to bargain for the highest price the utility of your labor can command — saving you from accepting the lowest price management’s relative power can compel you to.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Unions and Growth

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