Labor Movement the Enactment of Term Paper

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The question is should a worker have the ability to stop work as part of their collective bargaining rights at the expense of the public good. And, how much is the public good actually represented by the interests of the organization the company is striking against vs. its own selfish interests?

Ultimatately wokers should have the right to choose when they will work and under what conditions. The Taft-Harley Act is aply labeled the "slave-labor" bill. As economist Murray Rothbard explains,

There is no moral excuse, in a socity claiming to be opposed to slavery and in a country which has outlawed involuntary servicture, for any legal or judicial action probibiting strings-or jailing union leaders who fail to comply.
Slavery is all too often more convenient for the slavemasters."

Further, if the public good is truly at stake, public pressure will help ensure that a strike is quickly resolved by placing pressures on all parties involved. For all these reasons, the restrictions on strikes and boycots should be repealed. Market forces, not government intervention, should resolve labor disputes......

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