"Like most organizations, labor unions have aims they cannot attain, make claims for deeds they never achieved, and get blamed for sins they never committed. For example, labor unions try to claim credit for raising wages. But, regardless of their claims, unions have had no more to do with the general level of wages than with the general level of the seven seas. They have, it is true, succeeded in obtaining increases for their members at the expense of nonmembers; they have destroyed property and done other damage to their employers; and they have thrown many of their own members into unemployment."
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Leonard E. Read, "How Labor Unions Cause Inflation", (1959)
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