Labor Unions: part III

I would like to say I won't be able to respond to your arguments on Monday-Wednesday so please forgive me if I forfeit. Dropped/Conceded Arguments: #1: Labor unions help employees. #2: #2: Labor unions encourage hard work. Thus I'd like to state that the above contentions were dropped by my opponent. 1. I. Labor Unions increase unemployment and inflation. First of all, I'd like to say that the businesses will not be making less revenue. Why? The labor unions do not keep increasing wages until the business collapses. The labor unions only increase the wages until the employee gets wages high enough to be able to sustain economic security. They don't just randomly keep on pushing for higher wages but instad fairly advocate for the equality between the employer and the employee. "States with higher rates of unionization have lower rates of poverty, crime, and failing schools. In partnerships with employers, community organizations, and local governments, unions have helped revitalize local economies by saving and expanding family-supporting jobs." [1] This proves that labor unions don't increase unemployment or inflation but instead decrease unemployment, crime, and failing education. Not only that, but it actually boosts the employer, the community, and the local government's economy by saving lots of jobs. Therefore, labor unions do not increase unemployment and/or inflation. 2. Labor unions encourage sloth. I think this is a philosophical measure of the debate. I think that people tend to work harder if they see a reward. It's like classical conditioning. People try out new things and learn how to respond and how to work harder. How they get more rewards is because labor unions are more aware and will be much more interested in helping someone who works diligetnly for his pay. People work hard these days because they know that every moment is a crucial one and one wrong move can make you lose your job. 3. Unionized workers take advantage of non-unionized workers. That's wrong and I disagree a lot with you. How do they get higher wages? They are in labor unions which gives them higher wages. That's not taking advantage of others, that's getting the benefits of joining a labor union. Also I don't think anyone can judge if unionized-workers work less hard, as hard, or harder than non-unionized workers because we don't have solid evidence of it. Plus, as I've said, the company may have to lay off workers and unionized-workers get the benefit of job stability. 4. Labor unions hurt the consumer. My opponent compares labor unions to labor cartels. However, they are two different things. Labor unions make a worker's wage more equal, advocate for better communications between the employer and the employee, and improve a worker's benefits. Labor cartels just restrict workers in a company/industry to drive up all the remaining worker's wages. I can see the similiarity but there's a huge difference. Labor unions don't just keep raising wages, they drive up the worker's wages for the worker to be able to sustain economic security. They also don't neccessarily reduce the workers and actually help the economy. "Across the economy, unions raise productivity by 19% to 24% in manufacturing, 16% in hospitals, and between 17% and 38% in the construction sector." They actually make themselves more productive which makes the consumer happy. 5. Unions have laws that take away the power of bosses and executives that are needed to handle bad situations. I think this is a benefit of joining labor unions. I think this is supported by the Amendments as a right of labor unions. Plus, I don't know why giving a 2nd chance is so bad. Can you elaborate on how it is bad?