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"Failing to integrate them" could be because they struggled to find jobs, due to unions acting as a cartel and shutting competitors out of the labor market.

If Norway accepted fewer immigrants, that means that fewer jobs for immigrants are needed. If you accept a lot of immigrants, you'd like to have employment opportunities for _all_ of them. Unionization could cause this problem by lowering demand for unskilled workers, who are no longer profitable to hire due to union bargaining.

If jobs for immigrants were plentiful, maybe government support wouldn't be necessary.




"Could be...", "what if...", "maybe it's..." ...

So much wishy-washiness and absolutely zero concrete information.

I don't think you're proving any points.


I'm not seeing any concrete pro-union info in this thread either.


Failing to integrate works both ways. My family tree is filled with stories about never speaking anything at home other than English.

It had some terrible side effects of communication in the family for that generation.

Also, would have been cool to be bilingual. Maybe. My family tree makes me quite the mutt.




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