Unions Stifling US ~ Unproductive Labor Rules...

Julia Vitullo-Martin, a senior fellow at the Regional Plan Association and director of the Center for Urban Innovation, opinionates in USA Today about How unions are stifling American growth...

"Labor has become increasingly unproductive. Decades of government-sanctioned work rules and regulations that impede productivity while hindering management's ability to manage have caused construction costs to soar and efficiency to plummet. [...] This is a complaint about waste -- about organized labor's legacy of work rules, jurisdictional disputes and unproductive practices that cause costs to soar through delays and over-staffing."

Vitullo-Martin goes on to give specific and disgraceful examples of state-enforced private-sector pork -- i.e. contractually imposed and grotesque "no-work jobs" -- which infests multiple industry sectors, especially construction and manufacturing. It's pretty sickening.