Thursday, July 22, 2010

Union Job Killers

Union Shops Driving Down
Job Growth, Critics Warn


Lee Ohanian, a professor of economics at UCLA, recently finished a study at the American Enterprise Institute that examined what would happen if the U.S. returned to unionization levels of the 1970s. He said the numbers wouldn't be good for economic recovery.

"My estimates suggest (we) could lose perhaps 5 million jobs and lose about 500 billion worth of GDP if unionization returned to levels we had in the 1970s and if new union members were able to command the 15 percent wage premium that historically is applied to union membership. So we would have a much sicker economy than we have right now."


Boned Jello

I couldn't believe that Yahoo actually featured the headline, and gave a link to the article..... given its usual pro-administration spin.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/union-shops-driving-job-growth-critics-warn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

Miracle of miracles.... but I guess, in the long run, you just can't ignore facts.


Cuzzin Ricky

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's why they're focusing on unionizing govt workers. The one host they can't kill

An ignorant dickweed said...

This is why they also want to eliminate right to work states. They want to FORCE everyone into a union. Helps control the the working class.

JMcD said...

Wonder'f Lee is related to Krekor?

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