I have been saying for years now that collective bargaining violates antitrust law. My theory was greated quietly yet thoughtfully at first in 2007 at ALEC but I've stood by it.
On Friday, I created a pop culture cartoon on the anti-collective bargaining bill to explain my theory.
I created another one on the payroll dedcution bill also.
Now, Finally, in today's Wall Street Journal a Professor of Economics at Harvard Universtiy is stating the very same thing; that collective bargaining is a violation of Antitrust.
For a teachers union, collective bargaining means that suppliers of teacher services to all public school systems in a state—or even across states—can collude with regard to acceptable wages, benefits and working conditions. An analogy for business would be for all providers of airline transportation to assemble to fix ticket prices, capacity and so on. From this perspective, collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty.
I hope the logic of this thinking will quickly spead - it is about time...
Susan Lynn
