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The defining moment came with the Wassenaar agreement of that year--a pact between employers and trade unions, reached with the active encouragement of government.
Trade unions agreed to moderate wage claims and abandon wage indexation, in exchange for reduced working time and improved prospects for the future.
Typically, this meant painful unemployment and weakening unions; the eurozone’s poorest countries, and especially the workers within them, bore the brunt of the adjustment burden.
At the same time, limits on workers' ability to organize independent unions have inhibited grassroots forms of safety monitoring.
Thanks to democracy, social struggle, and workers’ unions, together with the political efforts of social democracy, the inhumanity of the system was partly softened.
A tendency of growing influence of political unions with hazy ideology, which prevents both a liberal revamp and the restoration of communism, has sufficiently manifested itself.
The world of the Cold War is gone, as are schools and factories organized like barracks, authoritarian trade unions, gay bashing, and women’s obligation to receive permission from their husbands before being able to work or open a bank account.
In Tunisia, labor unions have managed to push civil-servant wages – which now equal 15% of GDP, up from 10% of GDP in 2011 – well above IMF targets.
At the same time, a recent "white paper" produced by a working group headed by the IMF's former boss, Michel Camdessus, which was charged with proposing the type of structural reforms needed to achieve growth, was received with the usual outcry from trade unions.
If unions bid up wages too high, a devaluation could fix the problem; if provincial governments spent a little too much, a quick round of peso printing would save the day.
Indeed, strong leadership would be needed to negotiate deflationary measures with labor unions, to persuade Germany to accept some inflation, or to navigate Italy’s return to the lira.
For more than twenty years economists were enthralled to so called "rational expectations" models which assumed that all participants have the same (if not perfect) information and act perfectly rationally, that markets are perfectly efficient, that unemployment never exists (except when caused by greedy unions or government minimum wages), and where there is never any credit rationing.
(That is why train drivers and pilots, for example, should be forced into monopoly unions that represent all of the other employees of their respective companies.)
Only after his re-election in autumn 2002, did he give up his previous populist stance, short-term responses and neo-corporatist ways of trying to talk trade unions and employers' associations into compromise.
Take the example of Eastern Airlines in the US; cost cutting did not work because of inflexible unions.
A new management was bought in through the market; unions struck; management filed for bankruptcy, sold planes and gates.
Once such examples are set, other unions fall into line.
Politics is heating up in middle-income countries as well, and unions are pressing politicians to take action.
Consider Chile, where the current leftist government has sent a bill to Congress that promises to improve income distribution simply by giving unions more power in collective bargaining.
Similarly, the potential for union-led bargaining to redistribute income presupposes non-competitive corporate practices, which in turn generate abnormal profits that can be bargained away by unions.
On the Yes side are all of the main political parties, trade unions, the business community, and a broad network of civil-society groups.
Restoring optimism, in both the Middle East and the West, will depend on whether intellectuals, unions, progressive parties, and civil-society groups can build a common political base and offer a shared vision for the future.
Elected and appointed government officials sometimes betray the public trust when they deal with companies and unions through regulation of business activities and labor markets, and government purchase and sale of goods and services.
5.Democratization in the work place - Powerful trade unions -- a general strike was called just before 1996 ended -- brings to an end a time where firms could allow wages to lag behind productivity by years.
First, direct negotiations between employers and employees in small and medium-size firms (accounting for 55% of the workforce) would be facilitated by allowing such companies to negotiate with elected representatives not mandated by the trade unions.
On the former, the government will take over from the unions, in order to provide unemployment benefits to all categories of workers, including the self-employed and those who voluntarily quit their current job to search for a new one.
According to its proponents, the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have required Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei to improve their labor practices significantly – and Vietnam to recognize independent trade unions.
For one thing, charges of labor-rights violations can be brought only by governments, not by trade unions or human rights organizations.
Following two years of complaints by US and Guatemalan trade unions, the US government formally launched a case against Guatemala in 2010.
The objectives of both domestic labor unions and international human-rights advocates are served better through other means.
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