On The Air
A few of our latest media appearances.
- I discuss monopolies and oil prices with Mike Slater.
- Yaron discusses individualism, capitalism, and the state of today’s political and economic world on the Financial Survival Network.
- Yaron discusses unions with Mike Slater.
2 Comments to “On The Air”
Thanks for the updates. I listen to Slater regularly on my commute but usually miss you guys.
With regard to the union discussion: great interview.
Beware the term “collective bargaining”, it is a package deal of legitimate rights to associate and speak with illegitimate entitlements to negotiation, exclusive representation, and (sometimes) mandatory union membership. Coined by a 19th century socialist. Yes workers have a right to associate and choose representation, but on their own time and property and without any obligation on the part of employers to speak to them, pay for and manage their elections, ignore other non-represented workers or countenance the union members’ continued employment. I think if the government simply reinstated this principle for private and government employer-employee relations, it’d solve the entire union problem. Unions could then go back to representing the legitimate, deserved requests and negotiations of employees with a healthy competition between unionized and non-unionized companies and among different kinds of unions. I don’t think the outcome would be a non-unionized workforce. There would probably develop a healthy unionism that works in partnership with owners to build more productive companies.
P.S. In reference to an earlier interview of Yaron’s with Slater, there’s much that a good politician could do with regard to gov’t collective bargaining. JFK introduced it at the federal level by executive order. Reagan could have similarly eliminated it. Furthermore Reagan could have refused to appoint NLRB members and neutered the agency that enforces collective bargaining “rights” in private industry.