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AdHocSolver

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42. Any action that increases the supply of workers relative to demand for workers...

Sat May 25, 2013, 04:57 PM

May 2013

...(the demand for workers being equivalent to the number of jobs available) will lower wages.

A supply of workers greater than demand for workers will also make it much more difficult, if not impossible, to organize the workers who are competing for scarce jobs.

The workers have leverage when the number of jobs available exceeds the number of qualified workers available so that the corporations have to compete for labor by offering higher wages and better benefits.

This is simple economics and any labor leader who overlooks this reality is either ignorant or is trying to fool the rank and file union members so that they do not realize that their union has very little leverage and throw him out of his job.

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