John McGuirk

John McGuirk ‏@john_mcguirk 28 Aug 2013

@cathyby It's about how a communist cabal tried to destroy dublin's free market and failed. I have zero sympathy for the ITGWU.

Cathy ‏@cathyby 28 Aug 2013

@john_mcguirk In fact at the time, people anti-ITGWU suffered in the Lock-out because they wanted to be in SOME union. Hardly free, is it?

John McGuirk ‏@john_mcguirk 28 Aug 2013

@cathyby Unions distort the market. Usually at the expense of the unemployed.

Cathy ‏@cathyby 28 Aug 2013

@john_mcguirk And note, this was 1913. Families in a single room. Actual starvation. Totally unfair to look for more pay?

John McGuirk ‏@john_mcguirk 28 Aug 2013

@cathyby And if those jobs were so poorly paid, one wonders why the employers were able to bus new workers in with such ease.

Cathy ‏@cathyby 28 Aug 2013

@john_mcguirk Unemployment. Simples.

John McGuirk ‏@john_mcguirk 28 Aug 2013

@cathyby As I said. Unions distort the labour market against the interests of the unemployed. 1913 was a perfect example.

Paul Moloney ‏@oceanclub 28 Aug 2013

@john_mcguirk @cathyby The situation before, with the largest slums in Europe, was the ideal of the free market then?