George Leef talks with National Review Online today in this Q&A session with NRO editor Kathryn Lopez:
There are some critics of labor unions who can be readily portrayed as mere bashers of workers or mouthpieces for Big Business. The right approach to take is not to attack unions per se. There is no more reason to regard a labor union as necessarily bad than to regard any other voluntary association of people as necessarily bad. Rather, critics who favor freedom and the rule of law need to concentrate on the extraordinary legal powers conferred upon labor-union officials by the National Labor Relations Act and other federal and state laws. Those of us who believe in freedom don’t want to get rid of unions. We simply want to make them have to respect the rights of everyone else ? especially the right to say “No.”
As a former union member, my thoughts exactly.
