k henry - aust. sustainable pop. is 15 million, page-41

"The AMA is a VERY powerful UNION. We could knock out double the number of Doctors from Univ if we wanted to."

Yes, it certainly is a very powerful union. Our universities can produce many more GPs and medical specialists.

Yet, when people on hotcopper criticize unions, they have in mind unions which represent the factory workers.

Professionals have unions too and some of these unions are powerful in their ability to control the supply of the skills that they represent.