Labor Unions

Since my opponent has not provided any rebuttal to my original arguments, all I am going to argue here is to refute my opponent's arguments and to add a slight extension to my arguments since a few people have commented that my Round 2 argument has too many sources instead of actual arguments. The Refutation: Labor Unions only help certain employees temporarily (because they will be laid off when the labor union causes the company's demise). Why does it matter that unionized workers get higher wages originally when in a few years or even sooner, they will be unemployed as the company goes out of business? "Then I had to pay $50 per week up to $350 which was automatically deducted from my pay check as my "initiation fee.""[1] Unions require you to pay your dues, so whatever money you make more than non-unionized workers goes back to the unions. "They protect the lazy worker and prevent the hard worker from moving up and getting what they deserve."[1] This shows that it is unfair to pay unionized workers more because most likely, they do less work than non-unionized workers, and do not deserve the pay increase. All unions do is encourage laziness becuase they can get away with it. The Summarization: Point 1: Labor Unions increase unemployment and increase inflation. How do they increase overall unemployment or increase overall inflation? Simple. A business has revenues and costs. The business uses the revenue to pay off the cost, and the remaining money (if there is any) is profit. Unions forceibly raise wages for employees. This raises the amount of cost they pay, which reduces their profit, and a lot of times forces the company to endure a loss. If the business is incurring a loss, they are forced to either reduce costs or increase revenue. The only ways to reduce costs is to shrink the company, which will inevitably result in the loss of jobs, or to directly reduce the amount of employment, which of course raises unemployment. The only way to increase revenue is to increase the costs of products, which in the long run will not work as the demand curve will shift to the left, resulting in negligable increase in revenue. And the effects of raising the prices of products increases inflation. Point 2: Labor Unions encourage sloth. Labor Unions encourage sloth because they discourage laying off and even firing. Why? Because they want to protect their members from unemployment. How does this encourage sloth? Becuase since they discoruage firing, then the things that companies fire employees for like sloth, can not be an excuse for firing. It takes many times doing the exact same bad thing and that thing has to be pretty bad for a unionized worker to be fired. So they tend to be less productive then non-unionized workers because they can get away with it. Point 3: Unionized workers take advantage of non-unionized workers. Unionized workers forceibly increase wages for themselves, and the businesses have to lower their wages for non-unionized workers. Not to mention, they take away health benefits, vacation time, etc... for them too. I look forward to my opponent's new arguments and his rebuttals. =======Sources=======: [1]:http://stranger941.hubpages.com...