quarta-feira, 26 de novembro de 2003

Direito à greve?

"The issue is whether the employer has the right to hire replacement workers and continue in production"

No ibergus, que referencia a Causa Liberal:

In The Union Problem, Rothbard writes:

"Pro-union apologists often insist that workers have a "right to strike." No one denies that. Few people--except for panicky instances where, for example, President Truman threatened to draft striking steel workers into the army and force them back into the factories--advocate forced labor. Everyone surely has the right to quit. But that's not the issue. The issue is whether the employer has the right to hire replacement workers and continue in production.
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In addition to their habitual use of violence, the entire theory of labor unions is deeply flawed. Their view is that the worker somehow "owns" his job, and that therefore it should be illegal for an employer to bid permanent farewell to striking workers. The "ownership of jobs" is of course a clear violation of the property right of the employer to fire or not hire anyone he wants. No one has a "right to a job" in the future; one only has the right to be paid for work contracted and already performed. No one should have the "right" to have his hand in the pocket of his employer forever; that is not a "right" but a systematic theft of other people's property."

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