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As a former supporter of the notion of civil unions I now realize that is simply a term of appeasement, not a term of equality.
As someone who was apathetic about the semantics of "marriage" vs. "civil unions", I found this movie to be very informative and very well done.
But the Democrats in Congress who won in 2008 were financed by labor unions, which are fearful of trade, chiefly with developing countries.
The OECD thinks these cuts are still insufficient, but Germany's usually polite unions now speak of "acts of force" and 350,000 people demonstrated last June in Bonn to protest the import of "capitalism American style" and demand the Chancellor’s resignation.
Unions and agricultural groups tie up traffic with protests every other day, hinting at possible escalation.
In India, policy changes require political consensus within the ruling coalition, labor laws are strongly defended by unions and political parties, and controversial decisions can be challenged on the streets, in the courts, and ultimately at the polls.
They no longer join political parties, trade unions, and other interest groups.
Britain was a much more socialized economy, with widespread government ownership and dominant trade unions.
But if unions are powerful or seniors are in the majority (in Italy the two coincide, because seniors are the majority in all labor unions), the exact opposite happens.
At the time, many policymakers blamed rapid price increases on “cost push” factors, such as pressure from trade unions for excessive wage hikes.
Trade unions’ membership and influence declined sharply, owing to increased global competition and, in some countries, deliberate legal reforms.
Meanwhile the pre-existing countervailing institutions (like labor unions) for the workers get eroded by new technology and globalization.
In the 1980's and 1990's, many European labor unions, in response to rising unemployment, adopted the policy of "work less, work all."
Their complaints were many: the government's land reform law, its oil policy, poor record on corruption, politicization and militarization of the public sector, disrespect for unions and other institutions, support for guerrillas in Colombia and for Fidel Castro, illegal arming of militants, hostility to the US, and threats to free speech.
The tide of events shifted to favor the opposition and facilitate coordination among its disparate parts, including politicians, business leaders, civil society organizations, active and retired military officials, intellectuals, labor unions and even members of religious groups.
If EU environmental directives, for instance, call for the closure of a heavily polluting plant in Britain, the Constitution would give labor unions the right to judicial appeals against the resulting redundancies.
The DPJ has even weaker grass-roots support, so the mandarins will most likely use their standard techniques of divide and rule to cajole the party by teaching it to mimic the LDP in using state money and contracts to underwrite its major constituencies, such as labor unions and other interest groups.
Claims that the TTIP would benefit primarily the wealthy have thus struck a chord with labor unions and others.
This network operates on the basis of political favors, collusion, regulatory capture, and the maintenance of privileges that the government offers in public-sector unions in return for political support.
There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.
The results have become increasingly obvious and painful: an economy that has suffered more severely in the global crisis than its neighbors to the south; a rent-seeking business elite that is unaccustomed to competition; public and private monopolies that no one seems to have the political will to dismantle; and corporatist pacts that siphon off public resources to unproductive unions, thwarting productivity and growth.
Unions opposed such change, but it also took time for bosses to understand that the way they ran their plants needed to change.
Not so in Europe, where the interests of a company's employees and their unions often come before those of its shareholders.
Unions are not the only culprits.
Moreover, trade unions continue to weaken, while globalization has led to cheap production of labor-intensive goods in China and other emerging markets, depressing the wages and job prospects of unskilled workers in advanced economies.
That, in turn, cleared the way for manipulation of currencies in the interests of exporters, businesses, and labor unions.
If they do not move quickly enough, there is a broad cohort of whistleblowers, unions, consumer advocates, and others to give them the needed push, serving as a system of checks and balances.
Two centuries on, the outgoing prime minister, David Cameron, may be remembered for losing two unions – with Europe and between England and Scotland.
Labor economists focus not only on how trade unions can distort markets, but also how, under certain conditions, they can enhance productivity.
This has been done before when African and Caribbean monetary unions and central banks were involved.
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