Mises Daily
Author:
Christopher Westley
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Those of us who appreciate liberty, voluntary exchange, and workers’ property rights to their own labor have long-objected to the American organized labor movement. Since the 1930s, this movement has been defined by the AFL-CIO. This “mother of all unions” is the biggest, with a membership of just under 13 million workers at the end of 2004. It is