Union opposition to basic income?

The various basic income experiments going on around the world are now coming under criticism from public sector union officials: As basic income experiments proliferate around the world — including in Prince Edward Island , the Netherlands , Finland and Kenya — some labour unions are starting to voice opposition to a plan they fear could make many public service jobs redundant. Finland’s largest labour union, SAK, recently called the country’s basic income experiment “useless” and made what would ordinarily be a conservative argument against it — that it would encourage people to drop out of the workforce, harming […]

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