Wrong. Bzzzzzzzzzzz. False. Sorry Billy, you're going to have to repeat 11th grade civics class!.
Screw off newbie. They ARE
BIG LABOUR
The most maddening consequence of the anti-corporate movement, is the resulting pro-union bias. Everybody hates the big bad corporation but loves the labor union movement. Well, whats the difference? Unions are corporations too. They are in the business of selling labor. Dont believe me? Try not paying your union dues and see what happens. You think the union bosses will take pity on you let you stick around anyway? Fat chance. That is because unions are inherently for-profit entities.
While labor unions have no outside shareholders, they do have well-defined stakeholders in the form of union membership, just like any other corporation. Also just like any other corporations, those stakeholders seek to maximize their own benefit. Take the United Auto Workers union, for example. The UAW union is no more or less a corporation than General Motors (GM), Ford (F), or Microsoft (MSFT). Ford, as everybody knows, seeks to maximize profit for shareholders both over the short- and long-term. Likewise, unions simply seek to maximize the welfare of its members, who are the unions shareholders in all but name. Does the connection between shareholder and union membership seem a bit abstract and tenuous for you? It shouldn't. There are many employee- and customer-owned corporations in America with a few of the most popular being Vanguard and State Farm Insurance. The structure of these corporations is legally, logically, and morally almost identical to that of most labor unions. Seen in this light, to be both anti-corporate and pro-union is an internally illogical position. They are one and the same.