The Tom Woods Show, episode 1019.

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Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here talking about labor unions today, which is a topic I've hit on a little bit as a

historian. And in fact, it is as a historian that I generally talk about labor unions even now

because they really have been on the decline for a long time.

But they've still done a lot, I think, to confuse people about the way the market works.

People think, well, here we have these labor unions.

And before we had them, workers were in bad shape.

And then later, after labor unions, they were in better shape.

So labor unions must have increased the,

improved the standard of living of the average worker. And this is not necessarily the case.

Even logically, that doesn't have to be the case. And I want to go through and review

some of the arguments. And I want to point out, by the way, that my father was a member of the Teamsters Union for about 15 years, so I have a natural inclination to be sympathetic to unions, but the facts just won't let me.

So what I'm doing here is sharing with you a talk I gave at the Meeses Institute probably about 12 years ago on this exact topic.

There is a part two to this,

and I will include that as a future episode. Now, anybody who's watched my YouTube videos

where I'm giving talks, maybe you've noticed that I try to be amusing and entertaining.

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