Tony wrote: T> Hi I am new to this group I am tired of the other 2 major parties as they just don't deliver much of anything except promises and nothing ever seems to change.<T
Welcome! If you are new to the LP, there is an excellent introduction to our positions at http://www.lp.org/issues/introduction.shtml. More details are at http://marketliberal.org/LP/NewVision.pdf, and brief essays on 13 hot issues are at http://www.lp.org/issues/issues.shtml. T> I would like to see government interference in the labor movement as the cards are greatly stacked against the working men and women. I don't want more laws just repel the ones against organizing unions. IE Canada if you want to be represented by a union just vote and you can't be fired for it. In the U.S. you can and are fired for trying to organize a union. Again I don't want a bunch of laws favoring either way just want a level playing field <T If employees can be fired for organizing a union, they can also quit en masse and work for an employer offering a better deal. The right to fire and the right to quit are two sides of the same coin. The LP wants a level playing field too, but in America the field is clearly tilted toward unions. For details of all the special legislation giving unions monopoly powers that are illegal for most other actors in the marketplace, see http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb106/hb106-33.pdf. Like any other cartel, unions seek economic advantage for their members at the expense of others. For details on the economics of unions as labor cartels, see http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/LaborUnions.html. These readings may challenge your beliefs instead of confirm them, but that's because the LP is the one party more interested in telling you what's right rather than telling you what you want to hear.
