Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!faustus From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Christopher) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Unions, etc Message-ID: <1707@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 22:31:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.1707 Posted: Wed Aug 22 22:31:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 07:40:28 EDT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 11 Maybe somebody out there who has a background in legal history can answer this -- is there any way that a union which unfairly prevents an employer from hiring non-union labor can be found in violation of anti-trust laws? As somebody pointed out, in effect a union has a monopoly on labor, and can have just as bad an effect on the economy as a corporation that has a monopoly on the capital in a given industry. I wonder if the phrasing of the anti-trust laws would allow such an application... Wayne