Unions
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Hilton: Labor unions file most CEQA lawsuits blocking housing
“Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions.”
Sanchez: The average union actor cannot afford union health insurance
“The average what is that? The average actor who is in a union... Cannot actually afford the insurance payments That are required as a member of the union.”
Mahan: Politicians caving to union demands cause California government dysfunction
“It's spineless politicians who cave to their aggressive demands who are the root cause of the problem here.”
Sorkin: Post-WWII US union success depended on global industrial monopoly
“The reason why unions even worked, I would argue, for, in large part, was because there was this period of time where we were the only players in town, so we could charge monopoly rents for a lot of things, and people could buy a house with a white fence and h…”
Both Union and Confederate forces tried to conscript Mark Twain
“The Confederates and the Union both try to conscript Clemens into their army to make him do this because Clemens had valuable knowledge of
Of the river.”
Regulation and standards in home construction primarily exist to protect industry jobs
“A lot of the stuff that's done in home construction is there to create jobs, not to reduce costs.”
Andreessen: Most of the US economy operates as cartels protecting incumbency
“Like most of the economy is, is one form of cartel or another. Like, as far as I can tell, it's like, you've got the education cartel, you've got the healthcare cartel, you've got the banking cartel. And then you've got, you know, you've got cartels of workers…”
Musk: Democratic Party is overly controlled by unions and trial lawyers
“The Democrat party is overly, overly controlled by the unions and by the trial lawyers, particularly the class action lawyers.”
Flexport CEO: Biden is better equipped than Trump for port deals
“And as far as union negotiations, Biden's probably pretty as equipped as any president's ever been to negotiate with a union and get them to play nice and not screw up his reelection with a strike. He's known as a union friendly president and go sit down and d…”
Chamath: Traditional labor unions are no longer effective at collective bargaining
“Unions are not effective anymore in collective bargaining. They are not. They don't have any data. They don't have any facts. They're not. They don't have any power, but they're not set up to win.”
Calacanis: Media company unionization controls short-term costs but kills long-term excellence
“In the short term, it controls costs. In the long term, it kills excellence.”
Chamath: US laws and union contracts protect police use of force
“The unions have basically written contracts that protect their use of force. The law is written in a way that protects their use of force.”
Neeleman views employee unionization as a fundamental failure of corporate leadership
“You know, I always thought if our people need someone else to come tell us how to treat them, then that would be pretty tragic. If I thought I didn't treat our people well enough that they needed somebody else, then, you know, that's not the company I wanted t…”